Dinartamus is an extinct genus of titanosuchian therapsids.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Synapsida |
| Clade: | Therapsida |
| Suborder: | †Dinocephalia |
| Family: | †Titanosuchidae |
| Genus: | †Dinartamus Broom, 1923 |
| Species: | †D. vanderbyli
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| †Dinartamus vanderbyli Broom, 1923
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This genus is only known through poor fossil records; therefore, there are few diagnostic characters known which are merely sufficient for classifying it as a titanosuchian.[1]
References
edit- ^ Boonstra, L. D. (1969). "The fauna of the Tapinocephalus zone (Beaufort beds of the Karoo)". Annals of the South African Museum. 56 (1). Cape Town: 37.
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