Genus: Anomocephalus MODESTO, RUBIDGE & WELMAN, 1999
Etymology: Greek, anomos, "lawless" and Greek, cephalos, ‘head’: The former word is taken from the prefix of the nomen Anomodontia, the therapsid clade to which the new species belongs, whereas the latter is a common suffix given to theraspid generic names.

Species: africanus MODESTO, RUBIDGE & WELMAN, 1999
Etymology: The specific epithet africanus is from Latin and means, ‘belonging to Africa’.

Holotype: BP/1/5582

Locality: Near Williston, northern Cape Province, Republic of South Africa.

Horizon: Base of the Beaufort Group.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Late Permian.

Material: Right side of skull missing the frontal, postfrontal and parietal entirely and portions of the squamosal, postorbital and braincase, and several poorly preserved postcranial elements are associated with the skull.