Brachyprosopus

Brachyprosopus
Temporal range: Middle Permian, 270–265 Ma
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Life Restoration
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Synapsida
Order:
Therapsida
Suborder:
Anomodontia
Infraorder:
Dicynodontia
Genus:
Brachyprosopus

Olson, 1937
Type species
Brachyprosopus broomi
Olson, 1937
Synonyms
  • Chelydontops altidentalis Cluver, 1975

Brachyprosopus is an extinct genus of dicynodont therapsid from the middle Permian Tapinocephalus Assemblage Zone in the Abrahamskraal Formation belonging to the Beaufort Group of the Karoo Basin, South Africa.[1]

Chelydontops Cluver, 1975, based on a skull from the Karoo Basin of South Africa, is a junior synonym.[1]

  1. ^ a b Angielczyk, Kenneth D; Rubidge, Bruce S; Day, Michael O; Lin, Florence (2016). "A reevaluation of Brachyprosopus broomi and Chelydontops altidentalis, dicynodonts (Therapsida, Anomodontia) from the middle Permian Tapinocephalus Assemblage Zone of the Karoo Basin, South Africa". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 36 (2): e1078342. Bibcode:2016JVPal..36E8342A. doi:10.1080/02724634.2016.1078342. S2CID 130520407.