Genus: Akkedops MOONEY, SCOTT & REISZ, 2025
Etymology: Afrikaans, akkedis, "lizard" and Greek, opsis, "appearance".
Species: bremneri MOONEY, SCOTT & REISZ, 2025
Etymology: In honor of the late D.T. Bremneri, the amateur collector who discoverer of the holotype skull SAM-PI-K6205 and BP/1/2614 and donated them.
Holotype: SMA-PK-K6205
Locality: Between the Beaufort West and Lozton districte, Western Cape Province, South Africa.
Horizon: Endothiodon Assemblage Zone (formerly the Tropidostoma Assemblage Zone and the lower Cisticephalus Zone).
Biostratigraphy:
Age: Tatarian Age, Lopingian Subepoch, Zechstein Epoch, Late Permian.
Material: An isolated and nearly complete skull with the posterior portion slightly compressed vertically and portions of the shoulder girdle positioned alongside the rostrum.
Referred
BP/1/2614: Isoalted and nearly complete crushed skull lacking the anterior most portion of the rostrum and mandible.
= Youngina capensis SMITH & EVANS, 1996
SAM-PK-K7710a-g: 5 articulated small nearly complete specimens and 2 fragmentary specimens.
SAM-PK-K7710a: Nearly complete specimen lacking most of the tail.
SAM-PK-K7710b: Nearly complete specimen lacking much of the tail.
SAM-PK-K7710c: Skull and shoulder girdle, but completely lacking right forelimb and postcranium just posterior to the shoulder girdle.
SAM-PK-K7710d: Nearly complete skeleton.
SAM-PK-K7710e: Skull and much of the shoulder girlde.
SAM-PK-K7710f: 2 sets of articulated phalanges complete with unguals and a series of phalanges.
SAM-PK-K7710g: Partially articulated hindlimb consisting of what appears to be the fibula, disarticulated phalanges, distal section of the femru and several caudal vertebrae.