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RHACHIOCEPHALUS
(rak-e-o-sef-ah-lus)
Named By: Harry Govier Seeley in 1898
Time Period: Late Permian
Location: South Africa. Tanzania - Usili Formation
Size: Largest species (R. behemoth) up to 2.5 meters long
Diet: Herbivore
Fossil(s): Partial remains of a few individuals, usually of the skull
Classification: | Chordata | Synapsida | Therapsida | Dicynodontia | Rhachiocephalidae |
Also known as: | Oudenodon magnus. Rhachiocephalus usiliensis |
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Rhachiocephalus is an extinct genus of dicynodont therapsid.

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