Digalodon
Name: Digalodon.
Phonetic: Dig-ah-lo-don.
Named By: R. Broom & J. T. Robinson
- 1948.
Classification: Chordata, Synapsda, Therapsida,
Dicynodontia, Aulacephalodontidae.
Species: D. rubidgei (type).
Diet: Herbivore.
Size: Unavailable.
Known locations: South Africa - Cistecephalus
Assemblage Zone.
Time period: Wuchiapingian of the Permian.
Fossil representation: Partial remains.
Digalodon is a genus dicynodont therapsid that lived in South Africa during the Permian.
Further reading
- Some new fossil reptiles from the Karoo Beds of South Africa. -
Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 118:392-407. -
R. Broom & J. T. Robinson - 1948.
- Redescription of Digalodon rubidgei, an emydopoid dicynodont
(Therapsida, Anomodontia) from the late Permian of South Africa. -
Fossil Record 18:43–55. - C. F. Kammerer, K. D. Angielczyk & J.
Frobisch - 2015.
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