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Daptocephalus
Taxonomy
Daptocephalus was named by van Hoepen (1934).
It was assigned to Dicynodontoidea by Kammerer et al. (2011).
It was assigned to Dicynodontoidea by Kammerer et al. (2011).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1934 | Daptocephalus van Hoepen |
| 2011 | Daptocephalus Kammerer et al. p. 136 |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
G. †Daptocephalus van Hoepen 1934
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†Daptocephalus huenei Haughton 1932
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Invalid names: Dicynodon broilii Boonstra 1948 [objective synonym]
†Daptocephalus leoniceps Owen
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Invalid names: Daptocephalus osborni Broom 1921 [synonym], Daptocephalus watsoni Broom 1921 [synonym], Dicynodon daptocephaloides Toerien 1955 [synonym], Dicynodon leontocephalus Broom 1950 [synonym], Dicynodon leontops Broom 1913 [synonym], Dicynodon lissops Broom 1913 [synonym]
Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| C. F. Kammerer et al. 2011 | A very large Permian dicynodontoid characterized by the following unique combination of characters: a steeply angled, sloping snout, anteroposteriorly short premaxilla with weakly ‘hooked’ tip, ventrally directed caniniform process, ru- gose orbital rim, squamosal with broadly rounded dorsal margin in lateral view, postfrontals exposed as thin, strap-like bones at the anteromedian edges of the postorbitals, extremely long, nar- row intertemporal bar with extremely narrow or no median ex- posure of parietals, and vertical orientation of the postorbitals in the intertemporal bar. |
Measurements
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| Source: o = order, c = class, subp = subphylum, uc = unranked clade | |||||
| References: Benton 1983, Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||
Age range: base of the Wuchiapingian to the top of the Changhsingian or 259.90000 to 252.17000 Ma
Collections (23 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Capitanian | South Africa (Western Cape) | Dicynodon huenei, Dicynodon broilii (31777) | |
| Wuchiapingian | Tanzania (Ruvuma) | Dicynodon leoniceps (190330) | |
| Wuchiapingian - Changhsingian | South Africa (Free State) | D. leoniceps (179592) D. leoniceps, Dicynodon leontops (177542) | |
| Wuchiapingian - Changhsingian | South Africa (KwaZulu-Natal) | D. leoniceps (176319 177004) | |
| Wuchiapingian - Changhsingian | South Africa (Eastern Cape) | D. leoniceps (80174 80216 86258 177563 178872 180724 181802) D. leoniceps, Dicynodon leontocephalus (177039) D. leoniceps, Dicynodon lissops (176312) D. leoniceps, Dicynodon osborni (175553 177604) Dicynodon leoniceps (177038) Dicynodon watsoni, D. leoniceps (80219) | |
| Wuchiapingian - Changhsingian | South Africa (Western Cape) | D. leoniceps (174623 175567) Dicynodon lissops (80176) | |
| Changhsingian | South Africa (Western Cape) | Dicynodon daptocephaloides (80223) |