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Tapinocephalus ("low,
depressed head") is an
extinct genus of
large herbivorous dinocephalians that
lived during the
Middle Permian Period in what is now...
- The
Tapinocephalus ****emblage Zone is a
tetrapod ****emblage zone or
biozone which correlates to the
middle Abrahamskraal Formation,
Adelaide Subgroup of...
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regarded as the most
derived of the dinocephalians,
alongside Tapinocephalus, and the most
abundant in the
fossil record.
Criocephalus vanderbyli...
- size.
Dinocephalians were
generally large. The
biggest herbivores (
Tapinocephalus) and
omnivores (Jonkeria) may have
weighed up to 2
tonnes (4,400 lb)...
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remains were
found in the
Karoo region of
South Africa,
belonging to the
Tapinocephalus ****emblage Zone. Therapsids, such as Moschops, are synapsids, the dominant...
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recovered from
Abrahamskraal Formation rocks—within the
boundaries of the
Tapinocephalus ****emblage Zone—of the
lower Beaufort Group. It was
named for the late...
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successful Tapinocephalidae.
Notable tapinocephalians include Moschops,
Tapinocephalus, and Titanosuchus.
Unlike anteosaurs and estemmenosuchids, tapinocephalians...
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Wordian age, and the
Tapinocephalus ****emblage Zone,
which is
mainly Capitanian in age.
Anteosaurus belongs to the
Tapinocephalus ****emblage Zone which...
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Guadalupian in age.
Records of
rhinesuchids from the
Eodicynodon andTapinocephalus ****emblage
Zones of
South Africa are less controversial. Additional...
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therapsids known from the
Middle Permian (middle
Capitanian stage) of
Tapinocephalus ****emblage Zone,
South Africa. It has one
known species, Eriphostoma...
