Polycynodon elegans Broom 1940

Osteichthyes - Therocephalia - Scaloposauridae

Alternative combination: Octocynodon elegans

Full reference: R. Broom. 1940. On some new genera and species of fossil reptiles from the Karroo Beds of Graaff-Reinet. Annals of the Transvaal Museum 20:157-192

Belongs to Polycynodon according to J. W. Kitching 1977

See also Broom 1940

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: RC 29, a partial skull (Anterior two thirds of a skull). Its type locality is Modderfontein, Biesjiespoort, Victoria West, which is in a Wuchiapingian terrestrial horizon in South Africa.

Distribution: found only at Modderfontein, Biesjiespoort, Victoria West

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