''Varanodon'' is an extinct genus of
amniotes
Amniotes are a clade of tetrapod vertebrates that comprises sauropsids (including all reptiles and birds, and extinct parareptiles and non-avian dinosaurs) and synapsids (including pelycosaurs and therapsids such as mammals). They are dis ...
from the family
Varanopidae
Varanopidae is an extinct family of amniotes that resembled monitor lizards and may have filled a similar niche, hence the name. Typically, they are considered synapsids that evolved from an ''Archaeothyris''-like synapsid in the Late Carbonifero ...
. It reached a length of about . It lived during the early
late Permian
Late may refer to:
* LATE, an acronym which could stand for:
** Limbic-predominant age-related TDP-43 encephalopathy, a proposed form of dementia
** Local-authority trading enterprise, a New Zealand business law
** Local average treatment effect, ...
period.
See also
*
List of pelycosaurs
This list of pelycosaurs is an attempt to create a comprehensive listing of all genera that have ever been included in the synapsida excluding therapsida and purely vernacular terms. The list includes all commonly accepted genera, but also genera t ...
References
* E. C. Olson. 1965. New Permian vertebrates from the Chickasha Formation in Oklahoma. ''Circular Oklahoma Geological Survey'' 70:1-70.
Varanopids
Prehistoric synapsid genera
Cisuralian synapsids of North America
Taxa named by Everett C. Olson
Fossil taxa described in 1965
Cisuralian genus first appearances
Cisuralian genus extinctions
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