THE PERMIAN DICYNODONT COLOBODECTES CLUVERI (THERAPSIDA, ANOMODONTIA), WITH NOTES ON ITS ONTOGENY AND STRATIGRAPH1C RANGE IN THE KAROO BASIN, SOUTH AFRICA.

The article offers information on the Permian dicynodont Colobodectes cluveri. It notes that the holotype, which was collected near the boundary between the Ecca and Beaufort groups of the Karoo Basin in South Africa, has a distinctive combination of primitive, derived, and autapomorphic characters. It states that the occurrence of the Colobodectes cluveri specimens in a narrow interval above the Ecca-Beaufort contact in the northwestern and western portions of the Karoo Basin suggests that the species may be a useful marker for the lowermost Beaufort in areas where the Eodicynodon zone is not preserved.