Mdomowabata
 | This article relies on a single source. (December 2025) |
| Mdomowabata Temporal range: | |
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| Illustration of the holotype cranium of Mdomowabata trilobops (NMT RB156) in left lateral view | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Synapsida |
| Clade: | Therapsida |
| Clade: | †Anomodontia |
| Clade: | †Dicynodontia |
| Genus: | †Mdomowabata |
| Species: | †M. trilobops |
| Binomial name | |
| †Mdomowabata trilobops Angielczyk and Otoo, 2025 | |
Mdomowabata is an extinct genus of dicynodont that lived in Tanzania during the Lopingian epoch.
Description
[edit]The type species, Mdomowabata trilobops, is diagnosed by its transversely expanded caniniform process of the maxilla with a bluntly rounded ventral tip, its possession of a hatchet-shaped exposure of the postfrontal bone on the skull's dorsal surface, its wide dorsal exposure of its parietals, its intertemporal portion of the postorbital being vertically oriented and possessing a concave lateral surface, its skull roof possessing a triangular exposure of the postparietal, its low and close-set anterior median palatal ridges, its large palatine pad that possesses both a rugose posterior section and a smoother anterior section flush with the premaxillary secondary palate, its symphyseal region of the mandible being anteroposteriorly short and transversely broad, its paired nasal bosses, and its possession of a round muscle scar anterior to the external mandibular fenestra.[1]
References
[edit]- ↑ Angielczyk, Kenneth D.; Otoo, Benjamin K. A. (7 August 2025). "A new cryptodont dicynodont (Therapsida, Anomodontia) from the Lopingian Usili Formation, Ruhuhu Basin, Tanzania". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 45 (sup1). doi:10.1080/02724634.2024.2441898. ISSN 0272-4634. Retrieved 24 December 2025 – via Taylor and Francis Online.