''Bondoceras'' is genus of

burnetiid Burnetiidae is an extinct family of biarmosuchian therapsids that lived in the Permian period whose fossils are found in South Africa, Zambia and Russia. It contains '' Bondoceras'', ''Bullacephalus'', ''Burnetia'', '' Mobaceras'', '' Niuksenit ...

therapsid discovered in

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and first described in 2023. The only species described is ''Bondoceras bulborhynchus''. The genus name ''Bondoceras'' is derived from "Bondo", a village near the fossil localities, and "ceras", ancient Greek for horn. The species name ''bulborhynchus'' refers to the distinctive hemispherical median nasal boss present on the snout. ''Bondoceras'' was collected from several localities southwest of Chamwe,

Gwembe District Gwembe District is a district of Zambia Zambia, officially the Republic of Zambia, is a landlocked country at the crossroads of Central Africa, Central, Southern Africa, Southern and East Africa. It is typically referred to being in South-Cen ...

, Southern Province, Zambia. The presence of tapinocephalid teeth near the localities suggests a

Guadalupian The Guadalupian is the second and middle Series (stratigraphy), series/Epoch (geology), epoch of the Permian. The Guadalupian was preceded by the Cisuralian and followed by the Lopingian. It is named after the Guadalupe Mountains of New Mexico an ...

age for the fossils.

References

{{therapsid-stub Burnetiamorpha Prehistoric therapsid genera Guadalupian synapsids of Africa Fossil taxa described in 2023