Jimusaria

Jimusaria is an extinct genus of dicynodont therapsid from the Late Permian (Changhsingian) Guodikeng Formation (Jilicao Group) of China. The type species J. sinkianensis was originally named as a species of Dicynodon, the first from Asia, but was given its own genus in 1963 before being sunk back into Dicynodon in 1988. The genus was resurrected in 2011 by palaeontologist Christian Kammerer in a taxonomic revision of the genus Dicynodon. Jimusaria was a mid-sized dicynodont, and was similar in appearance to the South African Dicynodon, but differed from it in features such as its narrower snout.[1]

Jimusaria
Temporal range: Late Permian
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Therapsida
Clade: †Dicynodontia
Infraorder: †Dicynodontoidea
Genus: †Jimusaria
Sun, 1963
Species:
†J. sinkianensis
Binomial name
†Jimusaria sinkianensis
Yuan & Young, 1934
Synonyms
  • Jimusaria taoshuyuanensis Sun, 1973

References
  1. Kammerer, C.F.; Angielczyk, K.D.; Fröbisch, J. (2011). "A comprehensive taxonomic revision of Dicynodon (Therapsida, Anomodontia) and its implications for dicynodont phylogeny, biogeography, and biostratigraphy". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 31 (Suppl. 1): 1–158. doi:10.1080/02724634.2011.627074.

Further reading
  • A.-l. Sun. 1973. [Permo-Triassic dicynodonts from Turfan, Sinkiang]. Reports of Paleontological Expedition to Sinkiang (I): Permo-Triassic Vertebrate Fossils of Turfan Basin. Memoirs of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology Academia Sinica 10:53-68
  • P. L. Yuan and C. C. Young. 1934. On the discovery of a new Dicynodon in Sinkiang. Bulletin of the geological Society of China 13(1):563-574
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