Tapinocephalus ("low, depressed head") is an extinct genus of large herbivorous dinocephalians that lived during the Middle Permian Period in what is now South Africa. Only the type species, Tapinocephalus atherstonei is now considered valid for this genus.
Africa. Only the type species, Tapinocephalus atherstonei is now considered valid for this genus. Fossils of Tapinocephalus atherstonii were collected and...
Victoria West. The Tapinocephalus Assemblage Zone is the second biozone of the Beaufort Group. The name of the biozone refers to Tapinocephalus atherstonei,...
dinocephalians. Jonkeria was a large and omnivorous animal, from the Tapinocephalus Assemblage Zone, Lower Beaufort Group, of the South African Karoo. The...
remains were found in the Karoo region of South Africa, belonging to the Tapinocephalus Assemblage Zone. Therapsids, such as Moschops, are synapsids, the dominant...
Zambia and the Tropidostoma Assemblage Zone of the Teekloof Formation, Tapinocephalus Assemblage Zone of the Abrahamskraal Formation, Dicynodon Assemblage...
Wordian age, and the Tapinocephalus Assemblage Zone, which is mainly Capitanian in age. Anteosaurus belongs to the Tapinocephalus Assemblage Zone which...
size. Dinocephalians were generally large. The biggest herbivores (Tapinocephalus) and omnivores (Titanosuchus) may have massed up to 2 tonnes (4,400 lb)...
extinct family of dinocephalians known only from the middle Permian Tapinocephalus Assemblage Zone of South Africa. The titanosuchids were large, omnivorous...
to 1.5 or 2 tonnes (3,310 or 4,410 lb) in the largest forms, such as Tapinocephalus atherstonei. The trend towards gigantism, so typical of many of the...
predators, the gorgonopsians. Fossils of Bradysaurus are known from the Tapinocephalus Assemblage Zone (Capitanian age) of the South African Karoo. Along with...
and Middle Tapinocephalus zone, shows considerable variability in the pachyostotic development. It may be not as derived as Tapinocephalus. The naso-frontal...
Struthiocephaloides have the same stratigraphic range - Lower to Middle Tapinocephalus Zone. Of the remaining two monospecific genera, Struthionops intermedius...
therapsids known from the Middle Permian (middle Capitanian stage) of Tapinocephalus Assemblage Zone, South Africa. It has one known species, Eriphostoma...
successful Tapinocephalidae. Notable tapinocephalians include Moschops, Tapinocephalus, and Titanosuchus. Unlike anteosaurs and estemmenosuchids, tapinocephalians...
fauna of the Tapinocephalus zone (Beaufort beds of the Karoo)". Annals of the South African Museum. 56: 1–73. Broom, R (1928). "On Tapinocephalus and two other...
Daptocephalus Assemblage Zone Eodicynodon Assemblage Zone Pristerognathus Assemblage Zone Tapinocephalus Assemblage Zone Tropidostoma Assemblage Zone...
58: 1–27. ISSN 2410-4418. Boonstra, L. D., 1969, The fauna of the Tapinocephalus zone (Beaufort beds of the Karoo): Annals of the South African Museum...
extinct genus of middle sized carnivorous therocephalians from the Tapinocephalus Assemblage Zone of South Africa. List of therapsids "Untitled Document"...
Tanystropheus – subsequently found to be a protorosaur Tanystrosuchus Taohelong Tapinocephalus – subsequently found to be a therapsid Tapuiasaurus Tarascosaurus Tarbosaurus...
Daptocephalus Assemblage Zone Eodicynodon Assemblage Zone Pristerognathus Assemblage Zone Tapinocephalus Assemblage Zone Tropidostoma Assemblage Zone...
('horse lizard') is an extinct genus of basal therapsids known from the Tapinocephalus Assemblage Zone of the Main Karoo Basin, South Africa. Chronologically...
biostratigraphic research. The Abrahamskraal Formation incorporates the entire Tapinocephalus Assemblage Zone in its upper sections and the entire Eodicynodon Assemblage...
ISSN 0024-4082. Day, M.O.; Rubidge, B.S. (2020-06-01). "Biostratigraphy of the Tapinocephalus Assemblage Zone (Beaufort Group, Karoo Supergroup), South Africa". South...
Daptocephalus Assemblage Zone Eodicynodon Assemblage Zone Pristerognathus Assemblage Zone Tapinocephalus Assemblage Zone Tropidostoma Assemblage Zone...
44: 88–90. hdl:10539/17294. Boonstra, L.D. (1969). "The fauna of the Tapinocephalus zone (Beaufort Beds of the Karoo)". Annals of the South African Museum...
middle Permian period. Fossils of the type species were found in the Tapinocephalus (Capitanian age, 265.8-260.4 Ma), and the base of the Eodicynodon (Wordian...
is an extinct genus of dicynodont therapsid from the middle Permian Tapinocephalus Assemblage Zone in the Abrahamskraal Formation belonging to the Beaufort...
of tapinocephalian therapsids from the Guadalupian epoch of Middle Tapinocephalus Zone, lower Beaufort Beds of the Karoo, in South Africa. Only two skulls...
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