Colobodectes
Name:
Colobodectes.
Phonetic: Col-o-bo-dek-tees.
Named By: S. Modesto, B. Rubidge, I.
Visser & J. Welman - 2003.
Classification: Chordata, Synapsida,
Therapsida, Chainosauria, Dicynodontia.
Species: C. cluveri (type).
Diet: Herbivore.
Size: Unavailable.
Known locations: South Africa.
Time period: Permian.
Fossil representation: Partial remains.
Colobodectes is a genus of dicynodont that lived in South Africa during the Permian.
Further reading
- A new basal dicynodont from the Upper Permian of South Africa. -
Palaeontology 46:211-223. - S. Modesto, B. Rubidge, I.
Visser & J. Welman - 2003.
- The Permian Dicynodont Colobodectes cluveri
(Therapsida,
Anomodontia), with Notes on Its Ontogeny and Stratigraphic Range
in the Karoo Basin, South Africa. - Journal of Vertebrate
Paleontology Vol. 29, No. 4 - Kenneth D. Angielczyk
& Bruce S. Rubidge - 2009.
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