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Taognathus

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Synapsida

Phylum
  
Chordata

Rank
  
Genus

Taognathus is an extinct genus of dicynodont, a non-mammalian synapsid. The Taognathus lived in South Africa during the Tatarian Age, Lopingian Subepoch, Zechstein Epoch, in the Late Permian, and was named by Scottish South African doctor and paleontologist Robert Broom in 1911. Its diet was herbivorous.

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Taognathus Wikipedia