Compsodon helmoedi Van Hoepen 1934 (dicynodont)

Osteichthyes - Dicynodontia

Full reference: M. I. Van Hoepen. 1934. Oor die ideling van die Dicynodontidae na aanleiding van nuwe vorme. Paleontologiese Navorsing van die Nasionale Museum 2:67-101

Belongs to Compsodon according to K. D. Angielczyk and C. F. Kammerer 2017

See also Angielczyk et al. 2014 and Van Hoepen 1934

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: NMQR 1460, a skull. Its type locality is Kranskraal, which is in a Wuchiapingian/Changhsingian terrestrial horizon in the Normandien Formation of South Africa.

Ecology: herbivore

Distribution:

• Permian of South Africa (3 collections), Zambia (2)

Total: 5 collections each including a single occurrence

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