''Mormosaurus'' ("

Mormo Mormo (, ''Mormō'') or Mormon was a female spirit in Greek folklore, whose name was invoked by mothers and nurses to frighten children to keep them from misbehaving. The term mormolyce (; pl. ''mormolykeia'' ), also spelt mormolyceum ( ''mormo ...

's Lizard") is an extinct genus of

tapinocephalid Tapinocephalidae was an advanced family (biology), family of tapinocephalians. It is defined as the clade containing ''Ulemosaurus'', ''Tapinocaninus'', and the Tapinocephalinae. They are known from both Russia and South Africa. In all probabilit ...

dinocephalian therapsid from the

Guadalupian The Guadalupian is the second and middle series/epoch of the Permian. The Guadalupian was preceded by the Cisuralian and followed by the Lopingian. It is named after the Guadalupe Mountains of New Mexico and Texas, and dates between 272.95 ± 0. ...

epoch of

South Africa South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded to the south by of coastline that stretch along the South Atlantic and Indian Oceans; to the north by the neighbouring countri ...

. It was first named by Watson in 1914, and contains one species, ''M. seeleyi''. Members of ''Mormosaurus'' had a long skull. Its taxonomic status is not settled, as some authorities synonymize it with '' Keratocephalus''.

References

* * ''The Osteology of the Reptiles'' by Alfred Sherwood Romer

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Tapinocephalians Prehistoric therapsid genera Fossil taxa described in 1914 Taxa named by D. M. S. Watson {{Paleo-therapsid-stub

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