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

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RUBIDGE, B. S. 1994. Australosyodon, the first primitive anteosaurid dinocephalian from the Upper Permian of Gondwana. Palaeontology, 37, 3, 579–594.

Bruce S. Rubidge 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. The Palaeontological Association (Free Access)