Placerias (meaning 'broad body')[1] is an extinct genus of dicynodonts that lived during the late Carnian age of the Triassic Period (221–216 million years ago). Placerias belongs to a group of dicynodonts called Kannemeyeriiformes, which was the last known group of dicynodonts before the taxon became extinct at the end of the Triassic.