The article offers information on the Tiarajudens eccentricus, a mammal-like reptiles abundant in Karoo basin in South Africa. It mentions that the 260-million-year-old Tiarajudens eccentricus found in Brazil in March 2011 was recognized to have a resemblance to Anomocephalus. It states that the resemblance of Anomocephalus and Tiarajudens suggests that basal anomodonts roamed in South Africa and South America during the Permian period.