''Varanodon'' is an extinct genus of
amniotes 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 Carbonife ...
. 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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