(Bernard Price Institute for Palaeontological Research, 1978) Grine, F. E.; Hahn, B. D.
The hypothesis that many, if not all, of the South African and Zambian specimens, which have
been regarded as different diademodontine genera and species, actually consitute a taxonomically
homogeneous, ontogenetic growth series is tested. The principles of allometric growth were
applied to this sample of fossils, which varied considerably in size and shape. The approach
which was followed was exclusively morphometric. The results indicate that these specimens do
represent various ontogenetic stages of a growth series of only a single species of Diademodon
Seeley.