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{{Short description|Extinct genus of dicynodonts}}
{{Speciesbox
| genus = Katumbia
| parent_authority = Angielczyk, 2007
| species = parringtoni
| authority =(von Huene, 1942)
| synonyms=
* ''Cryptocynodon parringtoni'' <small>von Huene, 1942</small>
}}
'''''Katumbia''''' (named for the Katumbi Viwili locality<ref name=Angielczyk2007/>) is a [[genus]] of [[dicynodont]] from [[Late Permian]] ([[Changhsingian]]) [[Kawinga Formation]] of the [[Ruhuhu Basin]], [[Tanzania]].<ref name="Angielczyk2007"/> and possibly the [[Upper Madumabisa Mudstone Formation]] of the [[Luangwa Basin]], [[Zambia]].<ref>{{cite book|doi=10.1007/978-94-007-6841-3_7 |chapter=Permian and Triassic Dicynodont (Therapsida: Anomodontia) Faunas of the Luangwa Basin, Zambia: Taxonomic Update and Implications for Dicynodont Biogeography and Biostratigraphy |title=Early Evolutionary History of the Synapsida |series=Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology |year=2014 |last1=Angielczyk |first1=Kenneth D. |last2=Steyer |first2=Jean-Sébastien |last3=Sidor |first3=Christian A. |last4=Smith |first4=Roger M. H. |last5=Whatley |first5=Robin L. |last6=Tolan |first6=Stephen |pages=93–138 |isbn=978-94-007-6840-6 |chapter-url=https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02107892 }}</ref> The type species, '''''K. parringtoni''''', was originally referred to the genus ''Cryptocynodon'', which is now recognized as a junior synonym of ''[[Endothiodon]]''.<ref name="Angielczyk2007">{{Cite journal|author=Angielczyk, K.D.|year=2007|title=New specimens of the Tanzanian dicynodont "''Cryptocynodon''" ''parringtoni'' von Huene, 1942 (Therapsida, Anomodontia), with an expanded analysis of Permian dicynodont phylogeny|journal=Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology|volume=27|issue=2|pages=116–131|doi=10.1671/0272-4634(2007)27[116:NSOTTD]2.0.CO;2|s2cid=86308349 }}</ref>
A mandible of ''Katumbia'' has been recovered as stomach content of the gorgonopsid ''[[Sauroctonus|?Sauroctonus parringtoni]]'', indicating that the latter preyed on this dicynodont.<reF>{{cite journal|last=Maisch|first=Michael W.|year=2009|title=The small dicynodont ''Katumbia parringtoni'' (von Huene, 1942) (Therapsida: Dicynodontia) from the Upper Permian Kawinga Formation of Tanzania as gorgonopsian prey|journal=Palaeodiversity|volume=2|pages=279–282|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/260272803}}</ref>
==References==
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[[Category:Lopingian synapsids of Africa]]
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