In Depth
Robertia is a genus of small dicynodont that lived in South Africa during the Permian. Robertia was probably a burrowing animal like its relative genus Diictodon, though Robertia is marked as different upon the basis of a larger mouth with increased palate size.
Further Reading
– On the anomodont reptiles from the Tapinocephalus Zone of the Karroo System. – Special Publication of the Royal Society of South Africa: Robert Broom Commemorative Volume: 57–64. – Lieuwe D. Boonstra – 1948. – The postcranial skeleton of Robertia broomiana, an early dicynodont (Reptilia, therapsida) from the South African karoo. – Annals of the South African Museum 84: 203-231. – G. King – 1981. – Species longevity and generic diversity in dicynodont mammal-like reptiles. – Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 102 (3–4): 321–332. – Gillian M. King – 1993. – The jaw function and adaptive radiation of the dicynodont mammal-like reptiles of the Karoo basin of South Africa. – Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 122 (1–2): 349–384 – C. Cox – 1998.
