Keratocephalus
Keratocephalus ("horned head") is an extinct genus of tapinocephalian therapsids from the early Capitanian age of South Africa. It was found in the Lower and Middle Tapinocephalus Assemblage Zone of the Karoo deposits, in the Lower Beaufort Beds in Beaufort West
| Keratocephalus Temporal range: Capitanian | |
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| Skeleton of Keratocephalus moloch | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Synapsida |
| Clade: | Therapsida |
| Suborder: | †Dinocephalia |
| Family: | †Tapinocephalidae |
| Subtribe: | †Tapinocephalina |
| Genus: | †Keratocephalus von Huene, 1931 |
| Species: | †K. moloch |
| Binomial name | |
| †Keratocephalus moloch von Huene, 1931 | |
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