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 | |
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.