Daptocephalus

Daptocephalus Temporal range: Changhsingian PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Articulated D. leoniceps skeleton (USNM 23354), National Museum of Natural History
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Clade:	Synapsida
Clade:	Therapsida
Clade:	† Anomodontia
Clade:	† Dicynodontia
Infraorder:	† Dicynodontoidea
Genus:	† Daptocephalus van Hoepen, 1934
Type species
†Daptocephalus leoniceps Owen, 1876
Species
†D. leonicepsOwen, 1876 †D. hueneiHaughton, 1932
Synonyms
List Rhachinocephalodon leoniceps(Owen, 1876) Daptocephalus leontopsBroom, 1913 Daptocephalus lissopsBroom, 1913 Daptocephalus osborniBroom, 1921 Daptocephalus watsoniBroom ,1921 Dicynodon daptocephaloidesToerien, 1955 Dicynodon ingensBroom, 1907 [1] Dicynodon leontocephalusBroom, 1950 Dicynodon leontopsBroom, 1913 Dicynodon lissopsBroom, 1913 Dicynodon osborniBroom, 1921 Dicynodon watsoniBroom, 1921

D. leoniceps skull, Natural History Museum, Berlin

Restoration of D. leoniceps

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]

See also

• List of therapsids

References

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.

• The main groups of non-mammalian synapsids at Mikko's Phylogeny Archive