Tropidostoma
Name:
Tropidostoma.
Phonetic: Trop-i-do-sto-mah.
Named By: Harry Govier Seeley - 1889.
Classification: Chordata, Synapsida,
Therapsida, Dicynodontia, Oudenodontidae.
Species: T. microtrema
(type).
Diet: Herbivore.
Size: Skull roughly about 19 centimetres long.
Known locations: South Africa - Teekloof
Formation.
Time period: Capitanian of the Permian.
Fossil representation: Partial remains of a few
individuals.
Tropidostoma is a genus of dicynodont therapsid that lived in South Africa during the Permian.
Further reading
- Researches on the Structure, Organisation, and Classification
of the Fossil Reptilia. - VI. On the Anomodont Reptilia and Their
Allies. - Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of
London, Series B 180:215-296. - Harry Govier Seeley - 1889.
- On the anomodont genera, Pristerodon and Tropidostoma.
- In
Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London (Vol. 1915, pp.
355-361). - R. Broom - 1915.
- A re-evaluation of the genus Tropidostoma Seeley. - A. W. Keyser -
1973.
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