Name:
Synostocephalus.
Phonetic: Sy-no-sto-sef-a-lus.
Named By: Broili and Schroder - 1935.
Classification: Chordata, Synapsida,
Therapsida, Anomodontia, Dicynodont.
Species: S. vanhoepeni
(type).
Diet: Herbivore.
Size: Unavailable.
Known locations: South Africa.
Time period: Permian.
Fossil representation: Partial remains.
Synostocephalus is a genus of dicynodont therapsid that lived in South Africa during the Permian.
Further reading
- �ber einige primitive
Anomodontier-Sch�del aus den unteren Beaufort-Schichten. Ibidem
Sitzber. Bayer. Ak. Wiss., Math.-Naturw. Abt 223-278. - F. Broili &
J. Schroeder - 1935.