Daptocephalus

Daptocephalus
Temporal range: Changhsingian
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Articulated D. leoniceps skeleton (USNM 23354), National Museum of Natural History
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Synapsida
Clade: Therapsida
Suborder: †Anomodontia
Clade: †Dicynodontia
Infraorder: †Dicynodontoidea
Genus: †Daptocephalus
van Hoepen, 1934
Type species
†Daptocephalus leoniceps
Owen, 1876
Species
  • †D. leoniceps Owen, 1876
  • †D. huenei Haughton, 1932
Synonyms
List
  • 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
D. leoniceps skull, Natural History Museum, Berlin

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]

  1. ^ Groenewald, D. P.; Kammerer, C. F. (2023). "Re-identification and updated stratigraphic context of the holotypes of the late Permian tetrapods Dicynodon ingens and Scymnosaurus warreni from KwaZulu-Natal". Palaeontologia africana. 56: 171–179. hdl:10539/37143.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ 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
  4. ^ Christian F. Kammerer (2019). "Revision of the Tanzanian dicynodont Dicynodon huenei (Therapsida: Anomodontia) from the Permian Usili Formation". PeerJ. 7: e7420. doi:10.7717/peerj.7420. PMC 6708577. PMID 31497385.