Diictodon is an extinct genus of pylaecephalid dicynodont [5] that lived during the Late Permian period, approximately 255 million years ago.

Dicynodonts, a highly successful group of Palaeozoic tetrapods, were herbivores with keratinous beaks, and were frequently equipped with large, neomorphic tusks. Diictodon is a particularly abundant dicynodont genus, allowing statistical investigation of its palaeobiology.

2014年5月14日 · Diictodon was a burrowing dicynodont that appears to have been extremely numerous and widespread. It had a short round body, stubby legs and sharp claws on the front feet, all very good adaptations for burrowing life.

Dicynodontia is an extinct clade of anomodonts, an extinct type of non-mammalian therapsid. Dicynodonts were herbivores that typically bore a pair of tusks, hence their name, which means 'two dog tooth'. Members of the group possessed a horny, typically toothless beak, unique amongst all synapsids.

They first appeared in mid Permian times (Wordian epoch) with the small Eodicynodon, and evolved in a remarkably uniform structural pattern, as seen in Dicynodon, through the Late Permian and the whole of Triassic period.

2021年4月19日 · Skeletons found in the terminal chamber of spiral-shaped burrow casts demonstrated that they were excavated by a small herbivorous mammal-like reptile called Diictodon. It wasn’t clear why the...

2003年2月1日 · Dicynodonts, a highly successful group of Palaeozoic tetrapods, were herbivores with keratinous beaks, and were frequently equipped with large, neomorphic tusks. Diictodon is a particularly...

Pylaecephalidae is a family of dicynodont therapsids that includes Diictodon, Robertia, and Prosictodon from the Permian of South Africa. Pylaecephalids were small burrowing dicynodonts with long tusks.

Diictodon is a particularly abundant dont genus, allowing statistical investigation of its palaeobiology. Anatomical, morphometric butional analyses provide evidence of sexual dimorphism, based on the presence or absence of tusks. Tusk occurrence is also correlated with the presence of a cranial boss on the skull roof. with greater cranial size.

Diictodon feliceps is the most prolific Late Permian dicyno-dont of South Africa and constitutes about 40-50% of the total fossil finds in the Tropidostoma and the Cistecephalus Assem-blage Zones of the Beaufort Group, South Africa (Rubidge, 1995). Its taxonomy, description, and functional morphology