Name: Abajudon.
Phonetic: Ab-ah-yu-don.
Named By: Kenneth D. Angielczyk, S�bastien
Huertas, Roger M. H. Smith, Neil J. Tabor, Christian A.
Sidor, Jean-S�bastien Steyer, Linda A. Tsuji & Neil
J. Gostling - 2014.
Classification: Chordata, Syanpsida,
Therapsida, Anomodontia, Dicynodontia.
Species: A. kaayai (type).
Diet: Herbivore.
Size: Unavailable.
Known locations: Tanzania - Ruhuhu Formation.
Time period: Wordian/Capotanian of the Permian.
Fossil representation: Skull and mandible.
Abajudon is a genus of dicynodont that lived in Tanzania during the Permian.
Further reading
- New dicynodonts (Therapsida, Anomodontia) and updated
tetrapod stratigraphy of the Permian Ruhuhu Formation (Songea Group,
Ruhuhu Basin) of southern Tanzania. - Journal of Vertebrate
Paleontology Volume 34, Issue 6. - Kenneth D. Angielczyk,
S�bastien Huertas, Roger M. H. Smith, Neil J. Tabor,
Christian A. Sidor, Jean-S�bastien Steyer, Linda A. Tsuji
& Neil J. Gostling - 2014.
- New materials of the enigmatic dicynodont Abajudon kaayai
(Therapsida, Anomodontia) from the lower Madumabisa Mudstone Formation,
middle Permian of Zambia. - Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. -
Savannah L. Olroyd, Christian A. Sidor & Kenneth D. Angielczyk
- 2018.
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