Brachyprosopus
| Brachyprosopus Temporal range: Middle Permian,
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| Order: | Therapsida
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| Suborder: | Anomodontia
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| Genus: | Brachyprosopus
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Brachyprosopus is an extinct genus of dicynodont therapsid from the middle Permian Tapinocephalus Assemblage Zone in the Abrahamskraal Formation belonging to the Beaufort Group of the Karoo Basin, South Africa.[1]
Chelydontops Cluver, 1975, based on a skull from the Karoo Basin of South Africa, is a junior synonym.[1]
Description[]
Brachyprosopus is similar to Endothiodon, Niassodon, and Pristerodon in having absence of anterior median palatal ridges; maxillary tooth rows bounded laterally by a shelf; unfused vomers; raised margins of the interpterygoid vacuity; broad intertemporal region; pineal boss; dentary tables; and a long, wide posterior dentary sulcus that extends posterior to the dentary teeth. However, it can be distinguished by the autapomorphy of a curled lateral edge of the squamosal that forms a lateral wall of the external adductor fossa.[1]
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References[]
- ^ a b c Angielczyk, Kenneth D; Rubidge, Bruce S; Day, Michael O; Lin, Florence (2016). "A reevaluation ofBrachyprosopus broomiandChelydontops altidentalis, dicynodonts (Therapsida, Anomodontia) from the middle PermianTapinocephalusAssemblage Zone of the Karoo Basin, South Africa". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 36 (2): e1078342. doi:10.1080/02724634.2016.1078342.
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- Dicynodonts
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