Vivaxosaurus

Vivaxosaurus
Temporal range: Late Permian
Life restoration of Vivaxosaurus trautscholdi
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Vivaxosaurus

Kalandadze & Kurkin, 2000
Species
  • V. trautscholdi (type)
Synonyms
  • Fortunodon Kurkin, 2012

Vivaxosaurus is a genus of dicynodont from the late Permian (Changhsingian) of Russia. It has been found at Sokolki on the Northern Dvina River near Kotlas in Arkhangelsk Oblast. Vivaxosaurus was likely a contemporary of Inostrancevia, Scutosaurus, and Dvinia. Like all members of the genus, this animal was toothless, except for prominent tusks, and probably cropped vegetation with a horny beak, like a tortoise.