Riebeeckosaurus is an extinct genus of tapinocephalian therapsids from the Guadalupian epoch of Tapinocephalus Assemblage Zone, lower Beaufort Beds of the Karoo, in South Africa. Only two skulls are known from the type genus.
It was a herbivorous, medium-sized (2.5 metres (8 ft 2 in) in length, 500 kilograms (1,100 lb) in mass) dinocephalian, with a very long, slender snout and a narrow intertemporal region with a narrow sagittal crest.
In 2013, Saniye Güven and colleagues proposed that the genus Avenantia is synonymous with Riebeeckosaurus, representing an immature individual.[1]
See also
References
- ^ Güven, S.; Rubidge, B. S.; Abdala, F. (2013). "Cranial morphology and taxonomy of South African Tapinocephalidae (Therapsida: Dinocephalia): the case of Avenantia and Riebeeckosaurus". Palaeontologia africana. 48: 24–33. hdl:10539/13310.
External links
- Tapinocephalidae at Kheper
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