''Daptocephalus'' is an extinct genus of non-

mammal Mammals () are a group of vertebrate animals constituting the class Mammalia (), characterized by the presence of mammary glands which in females produce milk for feeding (nursing) their young, a neocortex (a region of the brain), fur or ...

ian synapsid

anomodont Anomodontia is an extinct group of non-mammalian therapsids from the Permian and Triassic periods. By far the most speciose group are the dicynodonts, a clade of beaked, tusked herbivores.Chinsamy-Turan, A. (2011) ''Forerunners of Mammals: Ra ...

dicynodont, it which was found in Late Permian strata, in a biozone known precisely for the presence of fossils of this dicynodont, the ''Daptocephalus'' Zone, in the

Karoo The Karoo ( ; from the Afrikaans borrowing of the South Khoekhoe !Orakobab or Khoemana word ''ǃ’Aukarob'' "Hardveld") is a semi-desert natural region of South Africa. No exact definition of what constitutes the Karoo is available, so its ext ...

Basin in South Africa. 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''. cf Dicynodon leoniceps

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The main groups of non-mammalian synapsids at Mikko's Phylogeny Archive
Dicynodonts Permian synapsids of Africa Fossil taxa described in 1934 Taxa named by Egbert Cornelis Nicolaas van Hoepen Anomodont genera {{anomodont-stub

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