''Lamiasaurus'' is an extinct genus of therapsids from the

Tapinocephalus Assemblage Zone The ''Tapinocephalus'' Assemblage Zone is a tetrapod assemblage zone or biozone which correlates to the middle Abrahamskraal Formation, Adelaide Subgroup of the Beaufort Group, a fossiliferous and geologically important geological Group of the ...

of the

Karoo The Karoo ( ; from the Afrikaans borrowing of the South Khoekhoe Khoemana (also known as !Orakobab or Korana) word is a semidesert natural region of South Africa. No exact definition of what constitutes the Karoo is available, so its extent is ...

. It is known from an indeterminate jaw fragment that may be either titanosuchid or

anteosaur Anteosaurs are a group of large, primitive carnivorous dinocephalian therapsids with large canines and incisors and short limbs, that are known from the Middle Permian of South Africa, Russia, China, and Brazil. Some grew very large, with skulls ...

id.L.D. Boonstra, 1969, "The Fauna of the Tapinocephalus Zone", pg 36

References

Tapinocephalia Prehistoric therapsid genera Prehistoric synapsids of Africa Fossil taxa described in 1914 Taxa named by D. M. S. Watson {{paleo-Therapsid-stub