left|thumb|D. leoniceps skull, Natural History Museum, Berlin thumb|left|Restoration of D. leoniceps Daptocephalus is an extinct genus of dicynodont synapsid, which was found in Late Permian strata, in a biozone known precisely for the presence of fossils of this dicynodont, the Daptocephalus Assemblage Zone, in the Karoo Basin in South Africa. An additional species, D. huenei, is known from the Usili Formation in Tanzania and was formerly assigned to the genus Dicynodon before a study in 2019 recognised that the type specimen belonged to Daptocephalus. ==See also== List of therapsids
left|thumb|D. leoniceps skull, Natural History Museum, Berlin thumb|left|Restoration of D. leoniceps Daptocephalus is an extinct genus of dicynodont synapsid, which was found in Late Permian strata, in a biozone known precisely for the presence of fossils of this dicynodont, the Daptocephalus Assemblage Zone, in the Karoo Basin in South Africa. An additional species, D. huenei, is known from the Usili Formation in Tanzania and was formerly assigned to the genus Dicynodon before a study in 2019 recognised that the type specimen belonged to Daptocephalus. ==See also== List of therapsids
==References== The main groups of non-mammalian synapsids at Mikko's Phylogeny Archive
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).