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Dicynodont
Dicynodont Di*cyn"o*dont, n. [Gr. di- = di`s- twice + ? dog + ?, ?, tooth.] (Paleon.) One of a group of extinct reptiles having the jaws armed with a horny beak, as in turtles, and in the genus Dicynodon, supporting also a pair of powerful tusks. Their remains are found in triassic strata of South Africa and India.

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- Dicynodon ("two dog-teeth") is a genus of dicynodont therapsid that flourished during the Upper Permian period. Like all dicynodonts, it was an herbivorous...
- Counillonia Daptocephalus Delectosaurus Dicynodon Dinanomodon Gordonia Kunpania Peramodon Repelinosaurus Taoheodon Turfanodon Vivaxosaurus Lystrosauridae...
- Owen named two species of dicynodonts from South Africa: Dicynodon lacerticeps and Dicynodon bainii. Since Bain was preoccupied with the Corps of Royal...
- Formation, Tapinocephalus ****emblage Zone of the Abrahamskraal Formation, Dicynodon ****emblage Zone of the Balfour Formation, Cistecephalus ****emblage Zone...
- (Broom 1932) Synonyms Dicynodon anneae Broom 1940 Dicynodon galecephalus Broom & Robinson 1948 Dicynodon macrodon Broom 1940 Dicynodon whitsonae Toerien 1954...
- ****emblage Zone marks the Permian-Tri****ic boundary. Previously known as the Dicynodon ****emblage Zone, the name of the biozone refers to Daptocephalus, a medium-sized...
- this genus as Dicynodon bainii, with five more species of dicynodont being discovered in subsequent years. Seeley (1898) divided Dicynodon into two subgenera...
- species Dicynodon amalitzkii Sushkin, 1926 is closely related (Angielczyk and Kurkin 2003a, 2003b), although according to Lucas 2005, Dicynodon trautscholdi...
- Gillian King synonymized all species of Gordonia with Dicynodon, creating the single species Dicynodon traquairi. This classification was widely accepted...
- originally referred to the genus Dicynodon. The specimen was found in Fort Beaufort, South Africa, in the Dicynodon ****emblage Zone of the Karoo Basin...