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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Daptocephalus
Temporal range: Changhsingian |
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| Articulated D. leoniceps skeleton (USNM 23354), National Museum of Natural History |
| Scientific classification |
| Kingdom: |
Animalia |
| Phylum: |
Chordata |
| Clade: |
Synapsida |
| Clade: |
Therapsida |
| Clade: |
†Anomodontia |
| Clade: |
†Dicynodontia |
| Infraorder: |
†Dicynodontoidea |
| Genus: |
†Daptocephalus
van Hoepen, 1934 |
| Type species |
†Daptocephalus leoniceps
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| Species |
- †D. leoniceps Owen, 1876
- †D. huenei Haughton, 1932
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| Synonyms |
- Rhachinocephalodon leoniceps (Owen, 1876)
- Daptocephalus leontops Broom, 1913
- Daptocephalus lissops Broom, 1913
- Daptocephalus osborni Broom, 1921
- Daptocephalus watsoni Broom ,1921
- Dicynodon daptocephaloides Toerien, 1955
- Dicynodon ingens Broom, 1907[1]
- Dicynodon leontocephalus Broom, 1950
- Dicynodon leontops Broom, 1913
- Dicynodon lissops Broom, 1913
- Dicynodon osborni Broom, 1921
- Dicynodon watsoni Broom, 1921
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D. leoniceps skull, Natural History Museum, Berlin
Restoration of D. leoniceps
