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Kannemeyeria grazing

by

Walter B. Myers/Novapix

Reference

t-din00-30201

Date

2012-04-22

Large dicynodonts of the genus Kannemeyeria graze on ferns 240 million years ago in what is today South Africa. The trees on the right are Glossopteridales while those on the left are Ginkgos.
About the size of a modern ox with tusks and a beak for grazing on tough vegetation, Kannemeyeria was one of the first large herbivores of the Triassic era. They weren't dinosaurs, rather they are classified as mammal-like reptiles.