Oudenodon
Extinct genus of dicynodonts
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Oudenodon is an extinct genus of dicynodont. It was common throughout southern Africa during the Late Permian. Several species of Oudenodon are known.[2] Both O. bainii, the type species, and O. grandis are known from South Africa (Cistecephalus Assemblage Zone and Endothiodon Assemblage Zone).[3][4] Specimens of O. luangwensis have been found from Zambia.[5] One species, O. sakamenensis from the Lower Sakamena Formation is the only Permian therapsid yet described from Madagascar.[6] It is the type genus of the family Oudenodontidae, which includes members such as Tropidostoma.
| Oudenodon Temporal range: Late Permian | |
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| O. baini skull at the Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Synapsida |
| Clade: | Therapsida |
| Clade: | †Anomodontia |
| Clade: | †Dicynodontia |
| Family: | †Oudenodontidae |
| Genus: | †Oudenodon Owen, 1860 |
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Palaeobiology
Metabolism
Oudenodon is concluded on the basis of its δ18Op values to have been an ectothermic animal.[7]