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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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called varanopids within Sphenacodontia,
considering them to be more
primitive than
other sphenacodonts like Dimetrodon. They
thought varanopids and Dimetrodon-like...
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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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reptilian epidermal scales.[disputed – discuss]
Fossil evidence from some
varanopids shows that
parts of the skin were
covered in rows of osteoderms, presumably...
- The
varanopids, a
mysterious family of tetrapods, had
controversial relationships with many
other land tetrapods.
Paleolontologists have
mostly ****igned...
- 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...
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uncluttered environments. The
earliest known climbing tetrapod is the
varanopid amniote Eoscansor from the Late
Carboniferous (Pennsylvanian) of North...
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supraglenoid foramen on the sca****, a hole
which is also
absent in
varanopids and neodiapsids. Most had a
fairly short and
thick humerus which was expanded...
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clades known to have
survived into the
Guadalupian epoch,
along with
varanopids. Two
caseasaur taxa are
known from the
Guadalupian of Russia, representing...
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synapsids includes 29
holotypes of caseid, ophiacodontid, edaphosaurid,
varanopid, and
sphenacodontid species –
approximately 88% of
catalogued specimens...