page_title: Patranomodon
section_title: Discovery and history
hierarchical_section_title: Patranomodon / Discovery and history
caption_attribution_description: English: Holotype of Patranomodon
context_page_description: Patranomodon is an extinct genus belonging to the group of Anomodontia. Rubidge and Hopson named this anomodont in 1990 after discovering its skull. Patranomodon is known to have ranged in the Karoo of Southern Africa.
context_section_description: The skull fossil of Patranomodon was found in the Eodicynodon Assemblage Zone of South Africa, belonging to the lowest biozone of the Beaufort Group. The Beaufort Group time period extends from the middle of the Permian to the early Triassic period. It is one of the three main subdivisions of the Karoo Supergroup in what today is southern Africa. Rubidge and Hopson were the first to discover the skull of Patranomodon. These paleobiologists also named Patranomodon and were the first to publish literature on it starting in 1990. The most abundant remains of Patranomodon were found on the Eastern Cape of South Africa; however, fossil parts were also found in Europe, China, as well as India, which indicated migration occurring among these terrestrial creatures. The paleontologist Nyaphuli collected the fossil of this creature in South Africa and gave it the species name of "Patranomodon nyaphuli".
caption: Patranomodon holotype
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