Daptocephalus

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D. leoniceps skull, Natural History Museum, Berlin
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Restoration of D. leoniceps

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.[1][2] 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.[3]

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  1. Viglietti, P. A., Smith, R. M., Angielczyk, K. D., Kammerer, C. F., Fröbisch, J., & Rubidge, B. S. (2016). The Daptocephalus Assemblage Zone (Lopingian), South Africa: a proposed biostratigraphy based on a new compilation of stratigraphic ranges. Journal of African Earth Sciences, 113, 153-164.
  2. R. F. Ewer. The anatomy of the anomodont Daptocephalus leoniceps (owen). Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. doi 10.1111/j.1469-7998.1961.tb05881.x
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