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known varanopids developed a sail like Dimetrodon. The
length of
known varanopids,
including the tail,
varies from 1 to 2
metres (3 to 7 ft).
Varanopids already...
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preserved scales.
Among the
early synapsids, only two
species of
small varanopids have been
found to
possess osteoderms;
fossilized rows of
osteoderms indicate...
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uncluttered environments. The
earliest known climbing tetrapod is the
varanopid amniote Eoscansor from the Late
Carboniferous (Pennsylvanian) of North...
- back, and it
probably served the same
purpose -
regulating heat. The
varanopid family p****ingly
resembled today's
monitor lizards and may have had the...
- of
varanopid from the
Carboniferous of Nova Scotia. It
contains a
single species,
Dendromaia unamakiensis.
Dendromaia is the
oldest known varanopid and...
- Ascendon**** (meaning "climbing dwarf") is an
extinct genus of
varanopid amniote from the
Early Permian of Germany. It is one of the
earliest specialized...
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Archaeovenator is an
extinct genus of Late
Carboniferous varanopid synapsids known from
Greenwood County,
Kansas of the
United States. It was
first named...
- the
varanopid Ascendon****
suggests that some
early synapsids may have had squamate-like scales. However, some
recent studies have put
varanopids as taxonomically...
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Varanops is an
extinct genus of
Early Permian varanopid known from
Texas and
Oklahoma of the
United States. It was
first named by
Samuel Wendell Williston...
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synapsids includes 29
holotypes of caseid, ophiacodontid, edaphosaurid,
varanopid, and
sphenacodontid species –
approximately 88% of
catalogued specimens...
