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Kannemeyeria
🕑 Added 2023-03-18 09:59:57 +0000 UTCAnother very old illustration I did for my Cynognathus Assemblage Zone story. In hindsight I didn't really like the colouration here, the spot distribution didn't look very natural to me, so I totally redid it later.
This would've been the largest herbivore of the region and in fact of the earliest herbivores to become large during the Mesozoic Era; it was the first of many giant dicynodonts that would continue to roam Pangaea until the very end of the Triassic Period. Similar to large modern grazers, they pooped together communally in one spot.
Probably too large to burrow, I imagine this animal would have migrated north during the harsh winters when vegetation would've become scarce; the coming and going of the Kannemeyeria herds would have been a biannual event signalling the end of fall and the coming of spring. This was one of the principal prey of the huge Erythrosuchus (as there was nothing else known in the ecosystem that could prey on them, save perhaps very large temnospondyls).
