Australosyodon
Name:
Australosyodon
(Southern Syodon).
Phonetic: Aus-tra-lo-sy-o-don.
Named By: B. S. Rubidge - 1994.
Classification: Chordata, Therapsida,
Dinocephalia, Anteosauridae, Syodontinae.
Species: A. nyaphuli (type).
Diet: Carnivore.
Size: Skull 26 centimetres long. Body
estimated about 1.8 meters long.
Known locations: South Africa.
Time period: Wordian/Capitanian of the Permian.
Fossil representation: Skull and mandible, but
crushed on the right side.
Australosyodon was a Permian era dinocephalian therapsid that seems to have been very similar to the genus Syodon from Russia, hence the name ‘southern Syodon’. Although only known from a skull, Australosyodon seems to have been a bit larger than its Russian namesake. The description of Australosyodon marked one of the first known occurrences of an anteosaurid from a southern continent.
Further reading
- Australosyodon, the first primitive
anteosaurid dinocephalian
from the Upper Permian of Gondwana - B. S. Rubidge - 1994.
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