Riebeeckosaurus is an extinct genus

Genus

In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...

 of non-mammal

Mammal

Mammals are members of a class of air-breathing vertebrate animals characterised by the possession of endothermy, hair, three middle ear bones, and mammary glands functional in mothers with young...

ian synapsid

Synapsid

Synapsids are a group of animals that includes mammals and everything more closely related to mammals than to other living amniotes. They are easily separated from other amniotes by having an opening low in the skull roof behind each eye, leaving a bony arch beneath each, accounting for their name...

 from the Middle Permian of South Africa. Middle Tapinocephalus Zone, Karoo deposits, lower Beaufort Beds, Beaufort West, Boonstra 1952b. It was a herbivorous medium-sized (2.5 m est. 500 kg) dinocephalia

Dinocephalia

Dinocephalia are a clade of large early therapsids that flourished during the Middle Permian, but became extinct leaving no descendants.-Description:...

, it has a very long, slender snout and a narrow intertemporal region with a narrow sagittal crest. Only two skulls are known from the type genus, both from the Tapinocephalus Zone. ATW020525 MAK020416.

See also

• Keratocephalus moloch.
• Moschops capensis.
• Struthiocephalus whaitsi.
• Tapinocephalus atherstonei.
• Ulemosaurus reconstruction.