Daptocephalus

Daptocephalus; Temporal range:
	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:	†; van Hoepen, 1934
Type species
	†Daptocephalus leoniceps; Owen, 1876
Species
	†D. leoniceps Owen, 1876; †D. huenei Haughton, 1932;
Synonyms
	List Rhachinocephalodon leoniceps (Owen, 1876) ; Daptocephalus leontops Broom, 1913 ; Daptocephalus lissops Broom, 1913 ; Daptocephalus osborni Broom, 1921 ; Daptocephalus watsoni Broom ,1921 ; Dicynodon daptocephaloides Toerien, 1955 ; Dicynodon ingens Broom, 1907 ; Dicynodon leontocephalus Broom, 1950 ; Dicynodon leontops Broom, 1913 ; Dicynodon lissops Broom, 1913 ; Dicynodon osborni Broom, 1921 ; Dicynodon watsoni Broom, 1921 ;

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]

References

^ 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.
^ 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.
^ 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
^ 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.