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Daptocephalus Temporal range: Changhsingian PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Articulated D. leoniceps skeleton (USNM 23354), National Museum of Natural History
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Clade:	Synapsida
Clade:	Therapsida
Suborder:	†Anomodontia
Clade:	†Dicynodontia
Infraorder:	†Dicynodontoidea
Genus:	†Daptocephalus 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. 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.

See also

• List of therapsids

References

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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
4. 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.

• The main groups of non-mammalian synapsids at Mikko's Phylogeny Archive

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• South Africa
• Tanzania

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Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Clade: Synapsida Clade: Therapsida Synapsida see Synapsida Anomodontia see below↓
Anomodontia Anomodontia Biseridens Novocynodon? Anomocephaloidea Anomocephalus Tiarajudens Venyukovioidea Otsheria Parasuminia Suminia Ulemica Venyukovia Chainosauria Galechirus Galeops Galepus Patranomodon Anomocephaloidea? Dicynodontia see below↓
Dicynodontia Dicynodontia Brachyprosopus Colobodectes Eodicynodon Lanthanostegus Nyaphulia Pristerodon Pylaecephalidae Diictodon Eosimops Prosictodon Robertia Endothiodontia Abajudon Endothiodon Niassodon Therochelonia Emydopoidea Digalodon Emydorhinus? Palemydops? Emydopidae Compsodon Emydops Myosauridae Myosauroides Myosaurus Kingoriidae Dicynodontoides Kombuisia Thliptosaurus Cistecephalidae Cistecephaloides Cistecephalus Kawingasaurus Kembawacela Sauroscaptor Bidentalia see below↓
Bidentalia Bidentalia Daqingshanodon Idelesaurus Keyseria Odontocyclops Rastodon Syops Elphidae Elph Interpresosaurus Katumbia Geikiidae Aulacephalodon Bulbasaurus Geikia Pelanomodon Oudenodontidae Australobarbarus Oudenodon Tropidostoma Rhachiocephalidae Kitchinganomodon Rhachiocephalus Dicynodontoidea Counillonia Daptocephalus Delectosaurus Dicynodon Dinanomodon Gordonia Kunpania Peramodon Repelinosaurus Taoheodon Turfanodon Vivaxosaurus Lystrosauridae Basilodon? Euptychognathus? Jimusaria? Kwazulusaurus Lystrosaurus Sintocephalus? Kannemeyeriiformes see below↓
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