Bernard Price Institute for Palaeontological Research
Abstract
Main articleFossilised skulls of Diademodon exhibit rostral depressions which may have housed salt glands.
The possible functions of salt glands in this advanced cynodont are examined. Diademodon
appears to have been more reptilian than mammalian in its general physiological organisation.the Chairman's Fund of the Anglo American Corporation, the S. L.
Sive Memorial Travelling Fellowship, University of the Witwatersrand
Medical School, the Medical Referees Fund of the Department
of Anatom,. Medical School, and the Bernard Price
Institute for Palaeontological Research, University of the Witwatersran
