Articles | Volume 18, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/fr-18-43-2015
https://doi.org/10.5194/fr-18-43-2015
Research article
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22 Jan 2015
Research article |  | 22 Jan 2015

Redescription of Digalodon rubidgei, an emydopoid dicynodont (Therapsida, Anomodontia) from the Late Permian of South Africa

C. F. Kammerer, K. D. Angielczyk, and J. Fröbisch

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Angielczyk, K. D. and Kurkin, A. A.: Phylogenetic analysis of Russian Permian dicynodonts (Therapsida: Anomodontia): implications for Permian biostratigraphy and Pangaean biogeography, Zool. J. Linn. Soc., 139, 157–212, 2003.
Angielczyk, K. D. and Rubidge, B. S.: Skeletal morphology, phylogenetic relationships, and stratigraphic range of Eosimops newtoni Broom, 1921, a pylaecephalid dicynodont (Therapsida, Anomodontia) from the Middle Permian of South Africa, J. Sys. Palaeontol., 11, 189–229, 2013.
Angielczyk, K. D., Fröbisch, J., and Smith, R. M. H.: On the stratigraphic range of the dicynodont taxon Emydops (Therapsida: Anomodontia) in the Karoo Basin, South Africa, Pal. Afr., 41, 23–33, 2005.
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Short summary
An overlooked taxon of Late Permian dicynodont, Digalodon, is redescribed. Based on new specimens, we recognize Digalodon as a valid taxon that fills an important gap in the record of latest Permian small-bodied herbivores.
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