Genus: Syops KAMMERER, ANGIELCZYK & FORBISCH, 2011 (Published in 2012)
Etymology: Greek, sy, "hog" and Greek, -ops, "face"; referring to the piglike appearance of the skull (relatiely long and low-snouted for a dicynodont, with stout, recurved tusks). Also an allustion to the numerous warthogs at the type locality in the Luangwa Valley. Masculine.

Species: vanhoepeni (BOONSTRA, 1928) KAMMERER, ANGIELCZYK & FORBISCH, 2011 (Published in 2012)
Etymology:
= Dicynodon vanhoepeni BOONSTRA, 1938

Holotype: SAM 11311

Locality: 3 miles from Chikonta on Mpunda road, Ruhuhu, Tanzania, East Africa.

Horizon: Horizon 4.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Late Permian.

Material: Skull missing posterior end and fragmentary lower jaw.

Referred material:

ANGIELCZYK, STEYER, SIDOR, SMITH, WHATLEY, & TOLAN, 2014

/DRYSDALL & KITCHING, 1963

Locality: Locality 4, Luangwa Valley, North Zimbabwe, South Africa.

Horizon: Horizon 4,Upper Madumabisa Mudstone.

Biostratigraphy: Equivalent to the Cistecephalus zone.

Age: Tatarian Age, Lopingian Subepoch, Zechstein Epoch, Late Permian.

Material:

SAM-PK-11311:

 

Locality: Locality 61, Luangwa Valley, North Zimbabwe, South Africa.

Horizon: Horizon 4,Upper Madumabisa Mudstone.

Biostratigraphy: Equivalent to the Cistecephalus zone.

Age: Tatarian Age, Lopingian Subepoch, Zechstein Epoch, Late Permian.

Material:

NHCC LB25: Fragmentary skull.

 

= Dicynodon roberti BROOM, 1948
Etymology:

Holotype: SAM 11325a

Locality: Locality 5 (Drysdall & Kitching, 1963), Luangwa Valley, 3 to 4 miles north of Ntawere, Zambia.

Horizon:  Madumabisa Mudstone.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Late Permian.

Material: Anterior 2/3rds of a skull and mandibles.

Paratype:

SAM 11325b: Fragmentary skull.

 

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