''Prodicynodon'' is an extinct
genus of
dicynodont from the Late Permian of South Africa. Two species are known, the type species ''P. pearstonensis'' and ''P. beaufortensis'', both known only from their respective holotypes.
The holotypes of both ''Prodicynodon'' species are small, and some authors have considered ''Prodicynodon'' either a senior synonym of ''
Chelydontops
''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.
''Chelydontops'' Cluver, 19 ...
'' or a juvenile ''
Endothiodon''. However, in a 2014 abstract for the annual meeting of the
Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Christian Kammerer and colleagues considered ''Prodicynodon'' a valid genus closely related to
Therochelonia based on CT scanning and unpublished phylogenetic results, even while agreeing with King (1988) that the ''Prodicynodon'' specimens were juvenile.
[Nehls, M. , C. Kammerer , and J. Fröbisch . 2014. CT reconstruction and systematic position of the enigmatic dicynodont Prodicynodon beaufortensis. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 34(3, Supplement): 194–195.]
See also
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List of therapsids
References
The main groups of non-mammalian synapsids at Mikko's Phylogeny Archive
Dicynodonts
Lopingian synapsids of Africa
Fossil taxa described in 1904
Taxa named by Robert Broom
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