Genus: Platycraniellus HOEPEN, 1917
Etymology: Greek, platys, “broad, flat”, Greek, kranion, “skull” and Latin, -ellus, “little”: Little broad skull.
= Platycranion HOEPEN, 1916 non
Etymology:
= Platycranium HOEPEN, 1917
Etymology:

Species: elegans HOEPEN, 1917
Etymology: Greek, elegans, "elegant."
= Platycranion elegans (HOEPEN, 1917)
= Platycranium elegans (HOEPEN, 1917) HOEPEN, 1917

Holotype: Transvaal Museum 25

Locality: Harrismith Commonage, Free (Orange Free) State, South Africa.

Horizon: Katberg Formation, Beaufort Group.

Biostratigraphy: Lystrosaurus Assemblage zone (Lystrosaurus-Thrinaxodon zone, KEYSER, 1979, SACS, 1980, Procolophon zone, Lystrosaurus zone, WATSON, 1914, BROOM, 1906).

Age: Early Scythian Epoch, Early Triassic.

Material: Skull with fragments of articulated lower jaw, a partial right humerus, a fragment tentatively identified as a scapular blade and other indeterimiate osseious fragments attached to the skull.

Referred material:

Locality: Near Harrismith, Free (Orange Free) State, South Africa.

Horizon: Katberg Formation, Beaufort Group.

Biostratigraphy: Lystrosaurus Assemblage zone (Lystrosaurus-Thrinaxodon zone, KEYSER, 1979, SACS, 1980, Procolophon zone, Lystrosaurus zone, WATSON, 1914, BROOM, 1906).

Age: Early Scythian Epoch, Early Triassic.

Material:

National Museum, Bloemfontein C476: Nearly complete skull.

ABDALA, 2007

NMQR 1633: Partial skull lacking the anterior portion of the snout and the left zygoma.