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BRACHYPROSOPUS
(brak-e-pro-so-pus)
Named By: E. C. Olson in 1937
Time Period: Middle Permian, 270-260 Ma
Location: South Africa
Size: Unavailable
Diet: Herbivore
Fossil(s): Skull
Classification: | Chordata | Synapsida | Therapsida | Anomodontia |
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Brachyprosopus is an extinct genus of dicynodont therapsid from the middle Permian of the Karoo Basin, South Africa.

Chelydontops Cluver, 1975, based on a skull from the Karoo Basin of South Africa, is a junior synonym.

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