''Lupeosaurus'' is an extinct genus of

pelycosaur Pelycosaur ( ) is an older term for basal or primitive Late Paleozoic synapsids, excluding the therapsids and their descendants. Previously, the term mammal-like reptile was used, and Pelycosauria was considered an order, but this is now thoug ...

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synapsid Synapsida is a diverse group of tetrapod vertebrates that includes all mammals and their extinct relatives. It is one of the two major clades of the group Amniota, the other being the more diverse group Sauropsida (which includes all extant rept ...

s, assigned to the family

Edaphosauridae Edaphosauridae is a family of mostly large (up to or more) Late Carboniferous to Early Permian synapsids. Edaphosaur fossils are so far known only from North America and Europe. Characteristics They were the earliest known herbivorous amniotes ...

. ''Lupeosaurus'' was about long and weighed around .

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Edaphosauridae Prehistoric synapsid genera Cisuralian synapsids of North America Taxa named by Alfred Romer Fossil taxa described in 1937 Cisuralian genus first appearances Cisuralian genus extinctions {{paleo-Synapsid-stub

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