Kannemeyeria grazing - An artist's view of Kannemeyeria 240 million years ago, in South Africa....

Kannemeyeria grazing - An artist's view of Kannemeyeria 240 million years ago, in South Africa. These missing animals 3 metres long were not dinosaurs but dicynodonts, herbivorous mammalian reptiles (Therapsides) living in Permian. Large dicynodonts of the genus Kannemeyeria graze on ferns 240 million years ago in what is today South Africa. The trees on the right are Glossopteridales while those on the left are Ginkgos. About the size of a modern ox with tusks and a beak for grazing on tough vegetation, Kannemeyeria was one of the first large herbivores of the Triassic era. They won't dinosaurs, rather they are classified as mammal-like reptiles