Daptocephalus
Extinct genus of dicynodonts
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Daptocephalus is an extinct genus of dicynodont synapsid, which was found in Late Permian strata, in a biozone known precisely for the presence of fossils of this dicynodont, the Daptocephalus Assemblage Zone, in the Karoo Basin in South Africa.[2][3] An additional species, D. huenei, is known from the Usili Formation in Tanzania and was formerly assigned to the genus Dicynodon before a study in 2019 recognised that the type specimen belonged to Daptocephalus.[4]
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| Articulated D. leoniceps skeleton (USNM 23354), National Museum of Natural History | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Synapsida |
| Clade: | Therapsida |
| Clade: | †Anomodontia |
| Clade: | †Dicynodontia |
| Infraorder: | †Dicynodontoidea |
| Genus: | †Daptocephalus van Hoepen, 1934 |
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| †Daptocephalus leoniceps Owen, 1876 | |
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