Anthodon (meaning "flower tooth") is an extinct genus of pareiasaurid anapsid reptile from the Permian period of South Africa, Tanzania, and possibly northern Russia. It was about 1.2 to 1.5 meters in length (3.9 to 4.9 ft), and weighed around 80 to 100 kilograms (176 to 220 lb). The skull was small, and the cheekbones unornamented as in other pareiasaurids. Richard Owen, who described Anthodon, thought it was a dinosaur because dinosaurian skull material from the Early Cretaceous had become associated with the Permian material. The dinosaur material was later separated out by Robert Broom in 1912 and was renamed as the stegosaurid Paranthodon by Franz Nopcsa in 1929.

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Tags: Вымершие рептилии, Пермь, анапсиды, парарептилии, парейазавры, проколофоны

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