Homodontosaurus
Name:
Homodontosaurus
(same toothed lizard).
Phonetic: Ho-mo-dont-o-sor-us.
Named By: Robert Broom - 1949.
Classification: Chordata, Synapsida,
Therapsida, Therocephalia, Baurioidea.
Species: H. kitchingi
(type).
Diet: Carnivore?
Size: Skull about 5.5 centimetres long.
Known locations: South Africa - Balfour
Formation.
Time period: Changhsingian of the Permian.
Fossil representation: Partial skulls and some
partial post cranial remains.
Homodontosaurus was first described from a partial skull which Robert Broom thought might have come from a pelycosaur and perhaps one similar to Elliotsmithia. Then in 1950 a second specimen of Homodontosaurus was described by Brink, and this one included parts of the post cranial skeleton. This revealed that Homodontosaurus was not a pelycosaur but a therocephalian therapsid of the Baurioidea group. In more modern times, fossils of Homodontosaurus have in the past been speculated to be juveniles of the genus Tetracynodon.
Further reading
- New fossil reptile genera from the Bernard Price collection. -
Annals of the Transvaal Museum 21 (1-2): 187–194. -
Robert Broom - 1949.
- Scaloposaurian reptiles from the Triassic of Antarctica. -
American Museum Novitates 2709: 1–22. - E. H. Colbert
- J. W. Kitching - 1981.
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