Varanopidae
Extinct family of tetrapods / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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 Carboniferous. However, some recent studies have recovered them being taxonomically closer to diapsid reptiles.[1][2][3] A varanopid from the latest Middle Permian Pristerognathus Assemblage Zone is the youngest known varanopid and the last member of the "pelycosaur" group of synapsids.[4]
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Varanopidae | |
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Fossil skeleton of Varanops brevirostris in the University of Michigan Museum of Natural History | |
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Amniota |
Family: | †Varanopidae Romer and Price, 1940 |
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