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Varanopseidae
Description | Varanopidae is an extinct family of amniotes that resembled monitor lizards and might have had the same lifestyle, hence their name (monitor lizards belong to the genus Varanus). Typically, they are considered synapsids that evolved from an Archaeothyris-like synapsid in the Late Carboniferous, but a recent study has recovered them as diapsid reptiles. 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. From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varanopseidae, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0. | |||||||
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Rank | family | |||||||
Taxonomy (GBIF) | Life : Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Varanopseidae | |||||||
Taxonomic Status (GBIF) | accepted | |||||||
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Scientific Name | Varanopseidae | |||||||
Wikipedia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varanopseidae |
References
Benton, M.J. (ed). (1993). The Fossil Record 2. Chapman & Hall, London, 845 pp. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!
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