Species: nyaphuli RUBIDGE, 1994
Etymology: The species is in honour of John Nyuaphuli who collected the specimen.
Holotype: NMQR 3152
Locality: On the farm of Tuinkraal, Prince Albert Albert Road, Western Cape Province, South Africa.
Horizon: Lowermost portion of the Abrahamskraal Formation, base of the Beaufort Group and directly overlies the Waterford Formation, Ecca Group.
Biostratigraphy: Eodicynodon-Tapiocanius Assemblage Zone.
Age: Kazanian substage, Capitanian Stage, Middle Zechstein Epoch, Late Middle Permian.
Material: Skull and mandible, left side well preserved with several teeth,
right side crushed prior to fossilization.