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KERATOCEPHALUS
(ke-rah-to-sef-a-luss)
meaning: "horned head"
Keratocephalus
Named By: F. von Huene in 1931
Time Period: Capitanian
Location: South Africa
Size: About 2.5 to 3 meters long
Diet: Herbivore
Fossil(s): Fossils of several individuals
Classification: | Chordata | Synapsida | Therapsida | Dinocephalia | Tapinocephalidae |
Also known as: | Mormosaurus | Pelosuchus |
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Keratocephalus ("horned head") is an extinct genus of tapinocephalian therapsid from the early Capitanian age of South Africa. It was found in the Lower and Middle Tapinocephalus Assemblage Zone of the Karoo deposits, in the Lower Beaufort Beds in Beaufort West.

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