Named By: | Sidney H. Haughton in 1915 |
Time Period: | Capitanian, 265-260 Ma |
Location: | South Africa - Tapinocephalus Assemblage Zone |
Size: | About 3 meters long, skull about 50 centimetres long |
Diet: | Herbivore |
Fossil(s): | Several individuals, including juveniles |
Classification: | | Chordata | Synapsida | Therapsida | Dinocephalia | Tapinocephalidae | |
Also known as: | | Moschosaurus | Struthiocephalellus | Struthiocephaloides | Struthionops | Taurocephalus | |
Struthiocephalus ("Ostrich Head") is an extinct genus of dinocephalian therapsid from the Permian of South Africa.