Ufudocyclops information

Ufudocyclops; Temporal range: Middle Triassic; ~ Late Anisian PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
	Life restoration of Ufudocyclops
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Clade:	Synapsida
Clade:	Therapsida
Suborder:	†Anomodontia
Clade:	†Dicynodontia
Family:	†Stahleckeriidae
Subfamily:	†Stahleckeriinae
Genus:	†Ufudocyclops; Kammerer et al., 2019
Species:	†U. mukanelai
Binomial name
	†Ufudocyclops mukanelai; Kammerer et al., 2019

Ufudocyclops is an extinct genus of stahleckeriid dicynodont from the Middle Triassic of South Africa. It was found in the Burgersdorp Formation, part of the uppermost Cynognathus Assemblage Zone of the Beaufort Group in the Karoo Basin. The type and only known species is U. mukanelai. It was a large, beaked herbivore like other Triassic dicynodonts, lacking tusks, and is mostly characterised by unique features of the skull. It is known from three specimens, two of which were previously referred to the Tanzanian dicynodont Angonisaurus. The separation of Ufudocyclops from Angonisaurus indicates that the Middle Triassic fauna of the Beaufort Group in South Africa was not part of a larger shared fauna with those of the Manda Beds in Tanzania, as was previously supposed, and suggests that they were separated as more localised faunas, possibly by geographic barriers or in time. Ufudocyclops then would have been a unique part of the uppermost Cynognathus Assemblage Zone in South Africa. It is also the oldest known member of the family Stahleckeriidae, and implies that the family was already diversifying in the Middle Triassic alongside other kannemeyeriiforms, not just in the Late Triassic after other families died out.

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Ufudocyclops

Impidens

Kimberlite

Cynognathus Assemblage Zone

Argodicynodon

Coelophysis

Woznikella

Dicynodontia

Stahleckeriidae

Iron ore in Africa

Lystrosaurus

Mesosaurus

Bushveld Igneous Complex

Archaeopteris

Heterodontosaurus

Nyaphulia

Kannemeyeriiformes

Myosauridae

Placerias

Bulbasaurus

Diictodon

Witwatersrand

Coal in South Africa

Lesothosaurus

Dracovenator

Alopecognathus

Proterosuchus

Merensky Reef

Thrinaxodon

Karoo Supergroup

Ufudocyclops Temporal range: Middle Triassic ~ Late Anisian PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N

Life restoration of Ufudocyclops
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Clade:	Synapsida
Clade:	Therapsida
Suborder:	†Anomodontia
Clade:	†Dicynodontia
Family:	†Stahleckeriidae
Subfamily:	†Stahleckeriinae
Genus:	†Ufudocyclops Kammerer et al., 2019
Species:	†U. mukanelai
Binomial name
†Ufudocyclops mukanelai Kammerer et al., 2019