Brachyprosopus
| Brachyprosopus Temporal range: Middle Permian, 270–260 Ma | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| (unranked): | Amniota |
| Class: | Synapsida |
| Order: | Therapsida |
| Suborder: | Anomodontia |
| Genus: | Brachyprosopus |
Brachyprosopus is an extinct genus of dicynodont therapsid from the middle Permian of the Karoo Basin, South Africa. [1]
Chelydontops Cluver, 1975, based on a skull from the Karoo Basin of South Africa, is a junior synonym.[1]
Description
Brachyprosopus is similar to Endothiodon, Niassodon, and Pristerodon in having absence of anterior median palatal ridges; maxillary tooth rows bounded laterally by a shelf; unfused vomers; raised margins of the interpterygoid vacuity; broad intertemporal region; pineal boss; dentary tables; and a long, wide posterior dentary sulcus that extends posterior to the dentary teeth. However, it can be distinguished by the autapomorphy of a curled lateral edge of the squamosal that forms a lateral wall of the external adductor fossa.[1]