Suborder Anomodontia Phylum Chordata Order Therapsid | Class Synapsida Infraorder Dicynodontia Rank Genus | |
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Species Daptocephalus leonicepsOwen, 1876 Similar Cistecephalus, Dinanomodon, Pelanomodon, Oudenodon, Aulacephalodon |
Daptocephalus is an extinct genus of non-mammalian synapsid anomodont dicynodont, it which was found in Late Permian strata, in a biozone knwon precissely for the presence of fossils of this dicynodont, the Daptocephalus Zone, in the Karoo Basin in South Africa. It may also represent an amphibian.
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