He was friendly with William Guybon Atherstone, who was also a keen geologist and fossil collector and who was present at the discovery of Paranthodon africanus Broom at the farm Dassieklip on the Bushmans River, about half-way between Grahamstown and Port Elizabeth.
It owes its name to the fact that its jaw was found near the fossils of a Permian pareiasaur named Anthodon.