page_title: Eodicynodon
section_title: Description
hierarchical_section_title: Eodicynodon / Description
caption_attribution_description: Italiano: Skull of Dicynodon
context_page_description: Eodicynodon is an extinct genus of dicynodont therapsids, a highly diverse group of herbivorous synapsids that were widespread during the middle-late Permian and early Triassic. As its name suggests, Eodicynodon is the oldest and most primitive dicynodont yet identified, ranging from the middle to late Permian and possessing a mix of ancestral Anomodont/therapsid features and derived dicynodont synapomorphies.
  First described by paleontologist T. H. Barry in 1974, its only associated species, E. oosthuizeni, is named after Roy Oosthuizeni, the South African farmer who discovered the type specimen on his Cape Province farm between 1964 and 1970.
context_section_description: Eodicynodon was a medium-sized dicynodont, at about 450 mm long and 150 mm high. While it had many features common to all dicynodonts, such as canine tusks and jaw structures related to the "cheek pivot system" of mastication, it also displayed a number of ancestral features more similar to some of its primitive therapsid relatives, which are listed below.
caption: Illustration of the skull
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