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Dicynodon
Taxonomy
Dicynodon was named by Owen (1845).
It was assigned to Saurii by Meyer (1845); to Dicynodontia by Owen (1859); to Dicynodontia by Owen (1860); to Anomodontia by Broom (1912); to Anomodontia by Broom (1913), Haughton (1932) and Broom (1948); to Dicynodontia by Rybczynski (2000); to Dicynodontinae by King (1988), Battail and Surkov (2000) and Ivakhnenko (2008); to Dicynodontidae by Hay (1902), Hay (1930), Boonstra (1969), Carroll (1988), Ivakhnenko (2003) and Li and Sun (2008); and to Dicynodontoidea by Kammerer et al. (2011).
It was assigned to Saurii by Meyer (1845); to Dicynodontia by Owen (1859); to Dicynodontia by Owen (1860); to Anomodontia by Broom (1912); to Anomodontia by Broom (1913), Haughton (1932) and Broom (1948); to Dicynodontia by Rybczynski (2000); to Dicynodontinae by King (1988), Battail and Surkov (2000) and Ivakhnenko (2008); to Dicynodontidae by Hay (1902), Hay (1930), Boonstra (1969), Carroll (1988), Ivakhnenko (2003) and Li and Sun (2008); and to Dicynodontoidea by Kammerer et al. (2011).
Species
Species lacking formal opinion data
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
Year | Name and author |
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1845 | Dicynodon Meyer p. 283 |
1845 | Dicynodon Owen |
1859 | Dicynodon Owen p. 143 |
1860 | Dicynodon Owen p. 236 |
1888 | Keirognathus cordylus Seeley |
1889 | Dicynodon cordylus Lydekker |
1889 | Eurycarpus Seeley |
1902 | Dicynodon Hay p. 430 |
1912 | Dicynodon Broom |
1913 | Dicynodon Broom |
1930 | Dicynodon Hay p. 63 |
1932 | Dicynodon Haughton p. 639 |
1940 | Dicynodon grahami Broom |
1948 | Dicynodon Broom |
1969 | Dicynodon Boonstra |
1981 | Kingoria grahami Cluver and Hotton |
1988 | Dicynodon Carroll |
1988 | Dicynodon King |
1988 | Kingoria grahami King |
2000 | Dicynodon Battail and Surkov |
2000 | Dicynodon Rybczynski p. 256 |
2003 | Dicynodon Ivakhnenko |
2008 | Dicynodon Ivakhnenko |
2008 | Dicynodon Li and Sun p. 384 |
2011 | Dicynodon Kammerer et al. |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
G. †Dicynodon Owen 1845
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†Dicynodon angielczyki Kammerer 2019
†Dicynodon hartzenbergi Broom 1940
†Dicynodon lacerticeps Owen 1845
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Invalid names: Daptocephalus pardiceps Owen 1876 [synonym], Dicynodon aetorhamphus Broom 1948 [synonym], Dicynodon cadlei Broom 1940 [synonym], Dicynodon dutoiti Broom and Schepers 1937 [synonym], Dicynodon kitchingi Broom 1937 [synonym], Dicynodon taylori Broom 1932 [synonym], Dicynodon trigonocephalus Broom 1940 [synonym]
†Dicynodon pachyrhynchus Jaekel 1911
Invalid names: Dicynodon cordylus Seeley 1888 [nomen dubium], Eurycarpus Seeley 1889 [synonym], Kingoria grahami Broom 1940 [nomen dubium]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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References: Benton 1983, Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009 |
Age range: base of the Wuchiapingian to the top of the Ladinian or 259.90000 to 237.00000 Ma
Collections (30 total)
Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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Permian | Zambia | D. angielczyki (227294) | |
Permian | Mozambique | D. angielczyki (227295) | |
Permian | South Africa | D. sp. (189534) | |
Tatarian | Russian Federation (Orenburg) | D. sp. (196113 196152) | |
Capitanian | South Africa (Western Cape) | D. sp. (176250 198710 198723) | |
Capitanian | South Africa (Northern Cape) | D. sp. (85515) | |
Wuchiapingian | South Africa (Western Cape) | D. grimbooki (176357) D. sp. (171377) | |
Wuchiapingian | South Africa (Eastern Cape) | D. aetorhamphus (174622) D. hartzenbergi (176310) D. taylori (178127) Keirognathus cordylus, D. trigonocephalus (176331) | |
Wuchiapingian | Tanzania (Ruvuma) | D. huenei (178128) D. sp. (38064 135698 190334) | |
Wuchiapingian | South Africa | D. sp. (189781) | |
Wuchiapingian | South Africa (Northern Cape) | D. sp. (190565 190568) | |
Wuchiapingian - Changhsingian | South Africa (Eastern Cape) | D. dutoiti (176667) D. grahami (176917) D. kitchingi (175553 176336) D. pardiceps (174747) | |
Wuchiapingian - Changhsingian | South Africa (Western Cape) | D. cadlei (174623) D. lacerticeps (177020) | |
Ladinian | Brazil (Rio Grande do Sul) | Dicynodon indet. (99374) |