Abdalodon
Name: Abdalodon
(Abdala's Tooth).
Phonetic: Ab-dal-o-don.
Named By: C. F. Kammerer - 2016.
Classification: Chordata, Therapsida,
Cynodontia, Charassognathidae.
Species: A. diastematicus
(type).
Diet: Uncertain, but probable
insectivore/carnivore.
Size: Skull roughly about 6 centimetres long.
Body length uncertain.
Known locations: South Africa.
Time period: Late Permian.
Fossil representation: Partial skull.
Known
from a partial skull initially thought to belong to the
Procynosuchus
genus, Abdalodon was defined as a
distinct genus in
2016. Abdalodon was named in honour of
palaeontologist Fernando
Abdala, in recognition of their work on cynodonts.
Further reading
- A new taxon of cynodont from the Tropidostoma Assemblage Zone
(Upper Permian) of South Africa, and the early evolution of
Cynodontia. - Papers in Palaeontology 2(3):387-397. - C.
F. Kammerer - 2016.
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