SOUTH AFRICA

WESTERN CAPE PROVINCE

RIETHBRON DISTRICT

SWARTGROND FARM

EODICYNODON-TAPIOCANIUS ASSEMBLAGE ZONE

KAZANIAN SUBSTAGE

CAPITANIAN STAGE

UPPER GUADELUPIAN STAGE

MIDDLE ZECHSTEIN EPOCH

LATE MIDDLE PERMIAN

STEM: TETRAPODA GOODRICH, 1930

SUPERCLASS: AMNIOTA HAECKEL, 1866

CLASS: REPTILIA LAURENTI, 1768

SUBCLASS: SYNAPSIDA OSBORN, 1903

SUPERORDER: THERASPID BROOM, 1905

GRANDORDER: EUTHERAPSIDA

ORDER: DEINOCEPHALIA OLSEN, 1962

SUBORDER: TAPINOCEPHALIA BOONSTRA, 1955

INFRAORDER: TITANOSUCHIA

Superfamily: TAPINOCEPHALOIDEA Lydekker, 1890 (sensu Huene, 1956)

Family: TAPINOCEPHALIDAE Lydekker, 1890

Subfamily: TAPINOCEPHALINAE Lydekker, 1890 (sensu Kuhn, 1961)

Tapinocaninus pamelae

MICRORDER: NEOTHERAPSIDA

ORDER: ANOMODONTIA WATSON & ROMER, 1956

SUBORDER: DICYNODONTIA OWEN, 1860

Superfamily: EODICYNODONTIA Barry, 1974 (sensu Cluver & King, 1983)

Family: EODICYNODONTIDAE Barry, 1974

Eodicynodon oosthuizeni

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