Katumbia
Extinct genus of dicynodonts
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Katumbia (named for the Katumbi Viwili locality[1]) is a genus of dicynodont from Late Permian (Changhsingian) Kawinga Formation of the Ruhuhu Basin, Tanzania.[1] and possibly the Upper Madumabisa Mudstone Formation of the Luangwa Basin, Zambia.[2] The type species, K. parringtoni, was originally referred to the genus Cryptocynodon, which is now recognized as a junior synonym of Endothiodon.[1]
| Katumbia | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Synapsida |
| Clade: | Therapsida |
| Clade: | †Anomodontia |
| Clade: | †Dicynodontia |
| Family: | †Elphidae |
| Genus: | †Katumbia Angielczyk, 2007 |
| Species: | †K. parringtoni |
| Binomial name | |
| †Katumbia parringtoni (von Huene, 1942) | |
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A mandible of Katumbia has been recovered as stomach content of the gorgonopsid ?Sauroctonus parringtoni, indicating that the latter preyed on this dicynodont.[3]
