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IT is almost a hundred years since the first Anomodont reptile was discovered in South Africa by Andrew Geddes Bain. This skull was sent to Owen and in 1844 he described it under the name Dicynodon lacerticeps. Numerous other Dicynodon skulls were afterwards sent to London and are now in the British Museum (Natural History). The typical Dicynodon is very mammal-like in much of its structure, but is remarkable in having had a horny beak something like that of the tortoise, with in addition in the male a powerful permanently growing tusk in each maxilla and no other teeth.
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BROOM, R. A New Type of Anomodont Reptile. Nature 135, 583–584 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/135583b0
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