''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'' had been used, and pelycosaur was considered an order, but this is no ...

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synapsid Synapsids + (, 'arch') > () "having a fused arch"; synonymous with ''theropsids'' (Greek, "beast-face") are one of the two major groups of animals that evolved from basal amniotes, the other being the sauropsids, the group that includes reptil ...

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Edaphosauridae Edaphosauridae is a family of mostly large (up to 3 meters 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 a ...

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

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Edaphosaurids 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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