Oudenodon

Oudenodon is an extinct genus of dicynodont. It was common throughout southern Africa during the Late Permian. Several species of Oudenodon are known.^[2] Both O. bainii, the type species, and O. grandis are known from South Africa.^[3][4] Specimens of O. luangwensis have been found from Zambia.^[5] One species, O. sakamenensis, is the only Permian therapsid yet described from Madagascar.^[6] It is the type genus of the family Oudenodontidae, which includes members such as Tropidostoma.

Oudenodon Temporal range: Late Permian
O. baini skull at the Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Clade:	Synapsida
Clade:	Therapsida
Suborder:	†Anomodontia
Clade:	†Dicynodontia
Family:	†Oudenodontidae
Genus:	†Oudenodon Owen, 1860
Species
O. bainii Owen, 1860 (type) O. grandis Haughton, 1917 O. sakamenensis Mazin and King, 1991
Synonyms
Genus synonymy Chelyrhynchus Haughton, 1917 Species synonymy Aulacocephalodon milletti (Broom, 1928)(originally Dicynodon milletti) Chelyrhynchus lachrymalis Haughton, 1917 Dicynodon allani Broom, 1940 Dicynodon andrewsi Broom, 1921 Dicynodon brachyrhynchus Broom, 1948 Dicynodon breviceps Haughton, 1915 Dicynodon corstorphinei Broom & Haughton, 1917 Dicynodon curtus Broom, 1921 Dicynodon cyclops Haughton, 1917 Dicynodon euryceps Boonstra, 1938 Dicynodon graaffi Broom, 1940 Dicynodon greyii Owen, 1860 Dicynodon helenae Boonstra, 1938 Dicynodon kolbei Broom, 1912 Dicynodon lutriceps Broom, 1912 Dicynodon maccabei Broom, 1940 Dicynodon marlothi Broili & Schröder, 1917 Dicynodon megalops Owen, 1876 Dicynodon moutonae Broom, 1948 Dicynodon nesemanni Broom, 1940 Dicynodon parabreviceps Boonstra, 1938 Dicynodon prognathus Owen, 1860 Dicynodon richardi Broom, 1940 Dicynodon robertsi Broom, 1948 Dicynodon schwarzi Broom, 1919 Dicynodon truncatus Broom, 1899 Dicynodon vanderbyli Broom, 1928 Dicynodon wellwoodensis Broom, 1936 Oudenodon bolorhinus Broom, 1911 Oudenodon brevirostris (Owen, 1876)(originally Dicynodon brevirostris) Oudenodon glaucops (Broom, 1948)(originally Oudenodon) Oudenodon halli (Watson, 1914)(originally Dicyonodon halli) Oudenodon latirostris Broom, 1932 O. luangwensis Boonstra, 1938[1] Oudenodon mustoi Haughton, 1915 Oudenodon planus (Broom, 1913)(originally Dicynodon planus) Oudenodon platyceps (Broom, 1913)(originally Dicynodon platyceps)< Oudenodon platyfrons (Broom, 1932)(originally Dicynodon platyfrons) Oudenodon robustus (Broom, 1932)(originally Dicynodon robustus) Oudenodon wilmanae (Broom, 1928)(originally Dicynodon wilmanae)

Restoration of Oudenodon bainii

Oudenodon latirostris skull

See also

• Paleontology portal

• List of therapsids

References

1. Boonstra, L. D. (1938). A report of some Karoo reptiles from the Luangwa Valley, Northern Rhodesia. Quaternary Journal of the Geological Society of London 94:371-384.
2. King, G. (1988). Anomodontia. Encyclopedia of Paleoherpetology 17C:1-174.
3. Owen, R. (1860). On some reptilian fossils from South Africa. Quaternary Journal of the Geological Assotiation of South Africa 67:1-110.
4. Haughton, S. H. (1917). Investigations in South African fossil reptiles and Amphibia. Part 10. Descriptive catalogue of the Dicynodontia. Annals of the South African Museum 12:127-174.
5. Keyser, A. W. (1975). A re-evaluation of the cranial morphology and systematics of some tuskless Anomodontia. Memoir of the Geological Society of South Africa 67:1-110.
6. Mazin, J. M. and King, G. M. (1991). The first dicynodont from the Late Permian of Malagasy. Palaeontology 34:837–842.

• The main groups of non-mammalian synapsids at Mikko's Phylogeny Archive

External links

• Oudenodon in the Paleobiology Database