AGE:
Late Permian, Zone IV, 245 million years ago

MEANING OF NAME:
'Double Dog-Tooth'

PRONUNCIATION:
Die SlGN-o-don

CLASSIFICATION:
THERAPSIDA: Anomodontia; Family Dicynodontidae

Skull of a herbivorous dicynodont. With the exception of its prominent tusks, this animal was toothless.

Much like a turtle, it cropped vegetation with a horny beak. Dicynodonts were one of the more successful of the later therapsids, persisting until the very end of the Triassic.