| Named By: | van Hoepen in 1934 |
| Time Period: | Late Permian |
| Location: | South Africa |
| Size: | Unavailable |
| Diet: | Herbivore |
| Fossil(s): | Skull and partial post cranial remains |
| Classification: | | Chordata | Synapsida | Therapsida | |
Daptocephalus is an extinct genus of non-mammalian synapsid anomodont dicynodont, it which was found in Late Permian strata, in a biozone known precisely for the presence of fossils of this dicynodont, the Daptocephalus Zone, in the Karoo Basin in South Africa. It may also represent an amphibian.