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Article: Australosyodon, the first primitive anteosaurid dinocephalian from the Upper Permian of Gondwana

Publication: Palaeontology
Volume: 37
Part: 3
Publication Date: November 1994
Page(s): 579 594
Author(s): Bruce S. Rubidge
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RUBIDGE, B. S. 1994. Australosyodon, the first primitive anteosaurid dinocephalian from the Upper Permian of Gondwana. Palaeontology37, 3, 579–594.

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Abstract

A new genus and species of anteosaurid dinocephalian, Australosyodon nyaphuli, is described from the Eodicynodon-Tapinocaninus Assemblage Zone, the lowermost biozone of the Beaufort Group in S Africa. This genus, closely allied to Syodon, is the first undoubted primitive anteosaurid dinocephalian from outside Russia, and indicates that the earliest therapsids were also present in the southern hemisphere.
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