Dinodontosaurus

Dinodontosaurus; Temporal range: Mid-Late Triassic; ~242–235 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
	Mounted Dinodontosaurus skeleton
	D. tener illustration
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Clade:	Synapsida
Clade:	Therapsida
Suborder:	†Anomodontia
Clade:	†Dicynodontia
Clade:	†Kannemeyeriiformes
Genus:	†Dinodontosaurus; Romer, 1943
Type species
	†Dinodontosaurus oliveirai; Romer, 1943 [Junior synonym]
Species
	D. brevirostris Cox, 1968; D. tener (Huene, 1935); D. turpior (Huene, 1935) [nomen dubium];
Synonyms
	Genus synonymy Chanaria Cox, 1968 ; Diodontosaurus Tupí-Caldas, 1936 [nomen suppressum] ; Species synonymy Synonyms of D. brevirostris: Chanaria platyceps Cox, 1968 ; D. platygnathus Cox, 1968 ; ; Synonyms of D. tener: Diodontosaurus pedroanum Tupí-Caldas, 1936 ; D. oliveirai Romer, 1943 ; ;

Dinodontosaurus (meaning "terrible-toothed lizard") is a genus of dicynodont therapsid. It was medium to large dicynodont of the Triassic (with skull up to 40 centimetres (16 in) long^[1]) and had a beak corneum. It lived in the Middle Triassic but disappeared in the Upper Triassic.

Species

Dinodontosaurus tener is the most common species of dicynodont that existed in the Middle Triassic, and more common in the fossil layers that age in Rio Grande do Sul, in Rota Paleontológica. They are found mainly in the Paleontological Site Chiniquá in São Pedro do Sul and Candelária, where a group of ten pups were found together, demonstrating that these animals had strategies for coexistence in a group and caring for their offspring. Diodontosaurus pedroanum Tupi-Caldas, 1936 and Dinodontosaurus oliveirai, Romer 1943 are synonyms.^[2]
Dinodontosaurus brevirostris is known from remains found in Argentina. Chanaria platyceps Cox, 1968 and Dinodontosaurus platygnathus are synonyms.