- than
cistecephalids.
Cistecephalids showed a high
level of endemism, with each of the five
known species unique to a
single region.
Cistecephalids were...
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other cistecephalids,
Kembawacela was
specialised for a fossorial,
burrowing lifestyle similar to
modern day moles. It is
unique amongst cistecephalids for...
- small-bodied Emydops, Myosaurus, and kingoriids, and the
burrowing cistecephalids.
Below is a
cladogram modified from
Macungo et al. (2022)
showing the...
- Rubidge,
Bruce S. (February 2021). Ruta,
Marcello (ed.). "A new
tusked cistecephalid dicynodont (Therapsida, Anomodontia) from the
upper Permian upper Madumabisa...
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fossils all
belonged to a
single endemic species. Sauroscaptor, like most
cistecephalids, was a tuskless, small-bodied,
fossorial dicyonodont. The posterior...
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Cistecephalus microrhinus is
presented by
Macungo et al. (2023), who
interpret cistecephalids as
probable ectotherms, and
argue that
purported turbinals such as those...
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adaptations as
supporting a head-lift
digging behaviour for at
least some
cistecephalids. A
study aiming to
determine whether the
fossil material of Lystrosaurus...
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comparison to
other dicynodonts. One
group of kistecephalians, the
cistecephalids, are
thought to have been burrowers.
Below is a
cladogram from Kammerer...
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Sanghamitra (November 2016). Angielczyk,
Kenneth (ed.). "A new
taxon of
cistecephalid dicynodont from the
upper Permian Kundaram Formation of India". Papers...
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dicynodont genera. However, it was
broadly similar in
anatomy to
other cistecephalids, all of
which share similar adaptations to digging. Its
skull was broad...
