 | This article relies largely or entirely on a single source .(December 2025) |
| Mdomowabata Temporal range: | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Synapsida |
| Clade: | Therapsida |
| Clade: | † Anomodontia |
| Clade: | † Dicynodontia |
| Genus: | † Mdomowabata |
| Species: | †M. trilobops |
| Binomial name | |
| †Mdomowabata trilobops Angielczyk and Otoo, 2025 | |
Mdomowabata is an extinct genus of dicynodont that lived in Tanzania during the Lopingian epoch.
The type species, Mdomowabata trilobops, is diagnosed by its transversely expanded caniniform process of the maxilla with a bluntly rounded ventral tip, its possession of a hatchet-shaped exposure of the postfrontal bone on the skull's dorsal surface, its wide dorsal exposure of its parietals, its intertemporal portion of the postorbital being vertically oriented and possessing a concave lateral surface, its skull roof possessing a triangular exposure of the postparietal, its low and close-set anterior median palatal ridges, its large palatine pad that possesses both a rugose posterior section and a smoother anterior section flush with the premaxillary secondary palate, its symphyseal region of the mandible being anteroposteriorly short and transversely broad, its paired nasal bosses, and its possession of a round muscle scar anterior to the external mandibular fenestra. [1]