Diictodon Vector Pack (Father Day Special) ————————————————————————— Control-Diictodon (Father): F-> Call 1 A-> Call 2 T-> Call 3 H-> Call 4 E-> Call 5 R-> Call 6 Control-Diictodon (Son): S-> Call 1 O-> Call 2 N-> Call 3 —————————Description——————————— Diictodon (meaning "two weasel teeth") is an extinct genus of pylaecephalid dicynodont that lived during the Late Permian period, approximately 255 million years ago. Fossils have been found in the Cistecephalus Assemblage Zone of the Madumabisa Mudstone of the Luangwa Basin in Zambia and the Tropidostoma Assemblage Zone of the Teekloof Formation, Tapinocephalus Assemblage Zone of the Abrahamskraal Formation, Dicynodon Assemblage Zone of the Balfour Formation, Cistecephalus Assemblage Zone of the Middleton or Balfour Formation of South Africa and the Guodikeng Formation of China. Roughly half of all Permian vertebrate specimens found in South Africa are those of Diictodon. This small herbivorous animal was one of the most successful synapsids in the Permian period. Diictodon was a burrowing dicynodont that appears to have been extremely numerous and widespread. It had a short round body, stubby legs and sharp claws on the front feet, all very good adaptations for burrowing life. Although Diictodon did not build interconnecting burrows with others of its species, evidence suggests that large numbers would gather and burrow in close proximity to one another. Diictodon burrows typically spiral down into the ground before levelling off into the terminal chamber where the Diictodon would have slept and reared young. Although burrows could vary in size, larger burrows are known to have reached depths as far as one and a half meters into the ground Diictodon also had an oversized head for its body with a cropping beak that would have been suitable for feeding on the arid vegetation of the time. Diictodon, like other dicynodonts, possessed a pair of large tusks that erupted and pointed down from the upper jaw. While it has been suggested that male and female Diictodon both had tusks, a 2005 study by Corwin Sullivan cast doubt upon this. In this study Sullivan noted that only the type species of Diictodon, D. feliceps can be distinguished with clarity, and that other species are probably synonymous with this. It was also then noted that since known Diictodon skulls, come in both tusked and non-tusked forms, they may represent a distinction between males and females, with the males being tusked. Both male and female Diictodons provide parental care to young Diictodons. ——————————Credits——————————— My Father Cute Baby Diictodon Earth Museum Scientists Permian Diictodon Raptor_Saurus If Used, Credit Me. Music: Jurassic Park —————————————————————————
