Kombuisia frerensis Hotton 1974 (dicynodont)

Osteichthyes - Dicynodontia - Kingoriidae

Full reference: N. Hotton. 1974. A new dicynodont (Reptilia, Therapsida) from Cynognathus Zone deposits of South Africa. Annals of the South African Museum 64:157-165

Belongs to Kombuisia according to J. Fröbisch and R. R. Reisz 2011

See also Fröbisch 2007

Sister taxon: Kombuisia antarctica

Type specimen: BP/1/430 (= USNM 22936), a skull. Its type locality is Lady Frere Commonage, which is in an Anisian terrestrial horizon in the Burgersdorp Formation of South Africa.

Ecology: herbivore

Distribution: found only at Lady Frere Commonage

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