Notes on a specimen of Diademodon previously referred to Cyclogomphodon
Date
1978
Authors
Grine, F. E.
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Bernard Price Institute for Palaeontological Research
Abstract
The anterior portion of the cranium of a medium-sized cynodont is described. The specimen
was previously described briefly by Brink and Kitching (1953 ), who assigned it to the genus Cyclogomphodon
Broom, and it was upon this specimen that they based their rediagnosis of that genus.
The detailed study of this specimen has revealed that the supposed features which they considered
to be generically distinctive for Cyclogomphodon either do not exist or that their validity falls
away when this specimen is considered, in an ontogenetic context, as a not yet fully grown individual.
It is concluded that this fossil represents a medium-sized, "juvenile", individual of
Diademodon
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