Digalodon

{{Short description|Extinct genus of dicynodonts}}

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| fossil_range = Cistecephalus Assemblage Zone?

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| genus = Digalodon

| parent_authority = Broom & Robinson, 1948

| species = rubidgei

| authority = Broom and Robinson, 1948

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Digalodon is an extinct genus of kistecephalian dicynodont, known from the Karoo Basin of South Africa and the Upper Madumabisa Mudstone Formation of Zambia.{{cite journal|last=Angielczyk|first=Kennth D.|year=2019|title=First occurrence of the dicynodont Digalodon (Therapsida, Anomodontia) from the Lopingian upper Madumabisa Mudstone Formation, Luangwa Basin, Zambia|journal=Palaeontologia Africana|volume=53|pages=219–225|issn=2410-4418|url=https://wiredspace.wits.ac.za/items/d6dbc914-281b-4762-bc0c-9007231f8943}} Originally given a sparse description in 1948,{{cite journal|last1=Broom|first1=R.|last2=Robinson|first2=J.T.|year=1948|title=Some new fossil reptiles from the Karoo Beds of South Africa|journal=Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London|volume=118|issue=2 |pages=392–407|doi=10.1111/j.1096-3642.1948.tb00384.x |url=https://zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1096-3642.1948.tb00384.x|url-access=subscription}} for a time it was considered synonymous with other dicynodonts as a small juvenile individual of a larger genus, such as Aulacephalodon{{cite book|last=King|first=G.M.|year=1988|chapter=Anomodontia|editor-last=Wellnhofer|editor-first=P.|title=Handbuch der Paläoherpetologie|publisher=Gustav Fischer|place=Stuttgart|isbn=0895742500}} or Dicynodontoides;{{cite book|last=Brink|first=A.S.|year=1986|title=Illustrated bibliographic catalogue of the Synapsida|series=Geological Survey of South Africa Handbook|volume=10|isbn=0621117889|place=Pretoria}} however it has since been recognized as a distinct species.{{cite journal|last1=Kammerer|first1=C.F.|last2=Angielczyk|first2=K.D.|last3=Fröbisch|first3=J.|year=2015|title=Redescription of Digalodon rubidgei, an emydopoid dicynodont (Therapsida, Anomodontia) from the Late Permian of South Africa|journal=Fossil Record|volume=18|issue=1 |pages=43–55|doi=10.5194/fr-18-43-2015|doi-access=free |bibcode=2015FossR..18...43K |url=https://fr.copernicus.org/articles/18/43/2015/}}