Keratocephalus

Keratocephalus
Temporal range: Capitanian
Skeleton of Keratocephalus moloch
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Synapsida
Clade: Therapsida
Suborder: Dinocephalia
Family: Tapinocephalidae
Subtribe: Tapinocephalina
Genus: Keratocephalus
von Huene, 1931
Species:
K. moloch
Binomial name
Keratocephalus moloch
von Huene, 1931
Synonyms
  • Pelosuchus Broom, 1905

Keratocephalus ("horned head") is an extinct genus of tapinocephalian therapsids from the early Capitanian age of South Africa.[1] It was found in the Lower and Middle Tapinocephalus Assemblage Zone of the Karoo deposits, in the Lower Beaufort Beds in Beaufort West

  1. ^ "Keratocephalus moloch". Palaeocritti. Archived from the original on September 24, 2015.