Daptocephalus

Daptocephalus; Temporal range:
	Daptocephalus leoniceps skull at the Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Clade:	Synapsida
Clade:	Therapsida
Suborder:	†Anomodontia
Clade:	†Dicynodontia
Infraorder:	†Dicynodontoidea
Genus:	†Daptocephalus; van Hoepen, 1934
Type species
	†Daptocephalus leoniceps; Owen, 1876
Species
	†D. leoniceps Owen, 1876; †D. huenei Haughton, 1932;
Synonyms
	List Rhachinocephalodon leoniceps (Owen, 1876) ; Daptocephalus leontops Broom, 1913 ; Daptocephalus lissops Broom, 1913 ; Daptocephalus osborni Broom, 1921 ; Daptocephalus watsoni Broom ,1921 ; Dicynodon daptocephaloides Toerien, 1955 ; Dicynodon ingens Broom, 1907 ; Dicynodon leontocephalus Broom, 1950 ; Dicynodon leontops Broom, 1913 ; Dicynodon lissops Broom, 1913 ; Dicynodon osborni Broom, 1921 ; Dicynodon watsoni Broom, 1921 ;

Daptocephalus is an extinct genus of non-mammalian synapsid anomodont dicynodont, it which was found in Late Permian strata, in a biozone known precisely for the presence of fossils of this dicynodont, the Daptocephalus Assemblage Zone, in the Karoo Basin in South Africa. An additional species, D. huenei, is known from the Usili Formation in Tanzania and was formerly assigned to the genus Dicynodon before a study in 2019 recognised that the type specimen belonged to Daptocephalus.

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