A new type of primitive Cynodont

dc.contributor.author	Brink, A. S.
dc.date.accessioned	2014-12-22T07:58:51Z
dc.date.available	2014-12-22T07:58:51Z
dc.date.issued	1961-08-01
dc.description	Main article	en_ZA
dc.description.abstract	A very interesting ancestral type of Cynodont is described in reasonable detail from serial sections, graphical figures, and a complete wax model, four times natural size. The form is recognised as a new genus and species, for which the name Scalopocynodon gracilis is proposed. It is the earliest true Cynodont, from the base of the lower Cistecephalus-zone. Although its nearest allies are the somewhat later Silphedestids and Procynosuchids, it has unmistakably very close affinity with the base of the Ictidosuchid-Scloposaurid branch of the Therocephalians. Thus new light is cast on the origin of the Cynodonts and their general relationship with the Therocephalia. The specimen was thought to be a Scaloposaurus before it was decided to subject it to serial grinding.	en_ZA
dc.description.sponsorship	None	en_ZA
dc.identifier.citation	None	en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn	0078-8554
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10539/16091
dc.language.iso	en	en_ZA
dc.publisher	Bernard Price Institute for Palaeontological Research	en_ZA
dc.relation.ispartofseries	None;
dc.subject	Cynodont	en_ZA
dc.title	A new type of primitive Cynodont	en_ZA
dc.type	Article	en_ZA

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