The last dicynodont: an Australian Cretaceous relict. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-05-01] Reference
I love the form of dicynodont heads -- neat to see someone play with that form. From Wordnik.com. [Life's Time Capsule: The Long Road to Failure] Reference
Heber A. Longman (best known for his 1924 description of the giant pliosaur Kronosaurus) exhibited them at a meeting in 1915, and noted that they resembled dicynodont elements. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-05-01] Reference
Well, it turns out that he was right, as a 2003 reappraisal of the specimens by Tony Thulborn and Susan Turner showed that the bones could not belong to anything other than a dicynodont. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-05-01] Reference
In every detail – the distribution of concavities and foramina, the articulatory surfaces for other bones, the tooth shape, wear pattern and surface microstructure, the internal tooth structure (determined by CT scanning) – the specimen is indisputably dicynodont, and not matched by anything else. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-05-01] Reference
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The image above combines Laurie Beirne’s dicynodont life restoration, used in the press releases for Thulborn & Turner (2003), and on the front cover of the relevant issue of Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B, with a photo of the Australian fossil. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-05-01] Reference
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