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Type Skull and lower jaw. (S.A. Mus. Cat. No. 2356.) 

 Locality. Thee Kloof, Fraserburg, C.P. 



Horizon. Lower Beaufort Beds. (Probably bottom of Cistecephalus 

 zone.) 



DICYNODON STRIGICEPS, Owen. 



1855. Owen. Trans. Geol. Soc., 2nd ser., vol. vii ; pi. vi, figs. 2, 3. 

 1876. Owen, Oudenodon (?) strigiceps. Cat. Foss. Eept. S.A., p. 61 ; 



pi. xliv, fig. 4. 

 1890. Lydekker, Udenodon strigiceps. Cat. Foss. Eept. and Axnphib., 



iv, p. 30. 



Founded on the anterior part of a skull. Frontal region broad ; 

 caniniform process descends vertically below orbit ; rostral region 

 descends in convex semicircular contour to beak ; orbits in fore part of 

 head, directly above the nares. 



Type in the British Museum. 



Locality. "Tarka prolongation of the Winterberg," C.P. 



Horizon. Lower Beaufort Beds. (Probably top of Cistecephalus 

 zone.) 



DICYNODON TESTUDICEPS, Owen. 



1855. Owen. Trans. Geol. Soc., 2nd ser., vol. vii, p. 71. 

 1876. Owen. Cat. Foss. Eept, S.A., p. 45 ; pi. xliv, figs. 1-3. 

 1890. Lydekker. Cat. Foss. Eept. and Amphib., iv, p. 24. 



Founded on the anterior two-thirds of a skull. Front of skull 

 short and broad ; muzzle deflected abruptly downwards. Interorbital 

 width 35 mm. 



Type in the British Museum. 



Locality. " Tarka prolongation of the Winterberg," C.P. 



Horizon. Lower Beaufort Beds. (Probably Cistecephalus zone.) 



Lydekker gives the locality as " from the Stormberg Beds of the 

 Karroo system on the Modder tributary of the Orange Eiver." 



DICYNODON TESTUDIBOSTRIS, Br. & Htn. 



1913. Broom & Haughton. Ann. S.A. Mus., xii, 1, p. 36; pi. vii, 

 figs. 3, 4. 



In the photographs given with the original description of this type 

 the sutures were not adequately displayed, and a drawing is therefore 

 given of the arrangement of the bones in the preparietal region. The 



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