Anomocephalus

Anomocephalus ( lat. Anomocephalus ) - a genus of synapsids from primitive anomodonts . The primitiveness of the anomocephalus is that it retained a complete set of teeth in both jaws, while in its descendants, dicynodonts , the set of teeth was reduced to only a single pair of tusks (and in some cases to a complete absence of teeth) and a massive beak that resembled a turtle covering the jaw.

† Anomocephalus
Head reconstruction
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryotes Kingdom: Animals Kingdom : Eumetazoi No rank : Bilateral symmetrical No rank : Secondary Type of: Chordate Subtype : Vertebrates Infratype : Maxillary Overclass : Tetrapods Grade: † Synapsids Squad: † Therapsids Suborder : † Anomodonts Gender: † Anomocephalus
International scientific name
Anomocephalus Modesto et al. 1999
Single view
† Anomocephalus africanus Modesto et al. 1999
Geochronology Perm period 298.9—251.9 Ma million years Period Era Aeon 2,588 Even Ka F but n e R about s about th 23.03 Neogene 66.0 Paleogen 145.5 a piece of chalk M e s about s about th 199.6 Yura 251 Triassic 299 Permian P but l e about s about th 359.2 Carbon 416 Devonian 443.7 Silur 488.3 Ordovician 542 Cambrian 4570 Precambrian ◄ Nowadays ◄ Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction ◄ Triassic extinction ◄ Mass Permian Extinction ◄ Devonian extinction ◄ Ordovician-Silurian extinction ◄ Cambrian explosion

It was discovered in 1999 in the oldest mountain range of Gondwana ( Williston , Karoo , the Northern Cape , South Africa ). His discovery was evidence that this group of herbivores arose in Gondwana, and not in Laurasia, as previously thought. He lived about 260 million years ago, in the Permian period, in arid territories in the vicinity of rivers and lakes, reminiscent of the modern landscape of Namibia or Botswana ^[1] . A close relative of tiaraudens from Brazil ^[2] .