| Kwazulusaurus Temporal range: Late Permian | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Synapsida |
| Clade: | Therapsida |
| Suborder: | † Anomodontia |
| Clade: | † Dicynodontia |
| Family: | † Lystrosauridae |
| Genus: | † Kwazulusaurus Maisch, 2002 |
| Type species | |
| †Kwazulusaurus shakai Maisch, 2002 | |
Kwazulusaurus is an inactive genus of dicynodont therapsid from the Late Permian of South Africa. The type species K. shakai was described from the Dicynodon Assemblage Zone of the Beaufort Group in 2002. It has many similarities with the well-known dicynodont Lystrosaurus , and has been set in the same family, Lystrosauridae. Kwazulusaurus appears to be transitional betwixt early dicynodonts and the more derived Lystrosaurus; it has the wide skull roof of earlier dicynodonts, and a abridged snoot like that of Lystrosaurus. [1]
