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BULLACEPHALUS
(blu-la-sef-a-lus)
meaning: "Boss head"
Bullacephalus
Named By: B. S. Rubidge & J. W. Kitching in 2003
Time Period: Late Permian
Location: South Africa
Size: Skull 15 centimetres long. Body roughly estimated at about 1 meter long
Diet: Carnivore
Fossil(s): Almost complete skull and lower jaw
Classification: | Chordata | Synapsida | Therapsida | Biarmosuchia | Burnetiidae |
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Bullacephalus is an extinct genus of biarmosuchian therapsid belonging to the family Burnetiidae. The type species B. jacksoni was named in 2003. It is known from a relatively complete skull and lower jaw, discovered in the Late Permian Tapinocephalus Assemblage Zone of the Beaufort Group of South Africa.

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