Placerias (meaning broad body) is an extinct genus of dicynodonts that lived during the late Carnian age of the Triassic Period (221-210 million years ago). Placerias belongs to a group of dicynodonts called Kannemeyeriiformes, which was the last known group of dicynodonts before most of dicynodonts went extinct at the end of the Triassic. Placeri...
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(pronounced pluh-SEHR-ree-us) Placerias was a herding dicynodont (a so-called mammal-like reptile) that lived during the late Triassic period , roughly 222 to 215 million years ago. This thick-set, hippo-like herbivore (plant-eater) ate low-lying plants, like ferns, club mosses, roots, etc. It had sturdy tusks and a beak that it may have used to ro...
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