Cynosaurus
Encyclopedia
Cynosaurus is an extinct genus
of non-mammal
ian synapsid
. Remains have been found from the Dicynodon Assemblage Zone
in South Africa.
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
of non-mammal
Mammal
Mammals are members of a class of air-breathing vertebrate animals characterised by the possession of endothermy, hair, three middle ear bones, and mammary glands functional in mothers with young...
ian synapsid
Synapsid
Synapsids are a group of animals that includes mammals and everything more closely related to mammals than to other living amniotes. They are easily separated from other amniotes by having an opening low in the skull roof behind each eye, leaving a bony arch beneath each, accounting for their name...
. Remains have been found from the Dicynodon Assemblage Zone
Dicynodon Assemblage Zone
The Dicynodon Assemblage Zone is a geological stratum and a faunal zone of the Beaufort Group, of the South African Karoo. The name refers to Dicynodon, a genus of mammal-like reptile, that flourished in the Permian Period and whose fossils have been found in that structure....
in South Africa.