Oudenodon is an extinct genus of dicynodont. It was common throughout southern Africa during the Late Permian. Several species of Oudenodon are known.King, G. (1988). Anomodontia. Encyclopedia of Paleoherpetology 17C:1-174. Both O. bainii, the type species, and O. grandis are known from South Africa (Cistecephalus Assemblage Zone and Endothiodon Assemblage Zone).Owen, R. (1860). On some reptilian fossils from South Africa. Quaternary Journal of the Geological Assotiation of South Africa 67:1-110.Haughton, S. H. (1917). Investigations in South African fossil reptiles and Amphibia. Part 10. Descriptive catalogue of the Dicynodontia. Annals of the South African Museum 12:127-174. Specimens of O. luangwensis have been found from Zambia.Keyser, A. W. (1975). A re-evaluation of the cranial morphology and systematics of some tuskless Anomodontia. Memoir of the Geological Society of South Africa 67:1-110. One species, O. sakamenensis from the Lower Sakamena Formation is the only Permian therapsid yet described from Madagascar.Mazin, J. M. and King, G. M. (1991). The first dicynodont from the Late Permian of Malagasy. Palaeontology 34:837–842. It is the type genus of the family Oudenodontidae, which includes members such as Tropidostoma.
Palaeobiology
Metabolism Oudenodon is concluded on the basis of its δ18Op values to have been an ectothermic animal.
See also
List of therapsids
References
The main groups of non-mammalian synapsids at Mikko's Phylogeny Archive
External links
Oudenodon in the Paleobiology Database