Ischigualastia
| Ischigualastia Temporal range: Late Carnian,
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| An Ischigualastia jenseni replica skeleton on display in Japan. | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Synapsida |
| Clade: | Therapsida |
| Clade: | †Anomodontia |
| Clade: | †Dicynodontia |
| Family: | †Stahleckeriidae |
| Subfamily: | †Stahleckeriinae |
| Genus: | †Ischigualastia Cox 1962 |
| Type species | |
| †Ischigualastia jenseni Cox, 1962
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Ischigualastia is an extinct genus of large dicynodont therapsids from the Late Triassic of Argentina. It is named after its place of discovery, the Ischigualasto Formation in the Ischigualasto-Villa Unión Basin of northwestern Argentina. Like other Late Triassic dicynodonts, Ischigualastia is a member of the family Stahleckeriidae.