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    Dimetrodon. However, the sail on Edaphosaurus is different in shape and morphology. The first fossils of Edaphosaurus came from the Texas Red Beds in North...
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    Haptodus baylei, Haptodus garnettensis and Sphenacodon ferox, but not Edaphosaurus pogonias". They first appear during the Late Pennsylvanian (Upper Carboniferous)...
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    in the early part of the Permian. The most renowned edaphosaurid is Edaphosaurus, a large [10–12-foot-long (3.0–3.7 m)] herbivore which had a sail on...
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    species deserved its own genus. Naosaurus would later be synonymized with Edaphosaurus, a genus which Cope named in 1882 on the basis of skulls that evidently...
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    vertebrates) have been found in the Red Beds, including those of Dimetrodon, Edaphosaurus, Seymouria, Platyhystrix, and Eryops. A recurring feature in many of...
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    †Edaphosauridae Cope, 1882 Type species †Edaphosaurus pogonias Cope, 1882 Genera †Bohemiclavulus †Edaphosaurus †Gordodon †Glaucosaurus †Ianthasaurus †Lupeosaurus...
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    coastal plain inhabited by early relatives of mammals like Dimetrodon and Edaphosaurus. During the Triassic, a great river system formed in the state that was...
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    populated by numerous animatronic dinosaurs, including a fight between an Edaphosaurus and two Arthropleura; a family of Brontosaurus in a swamp (with realistic...
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    Assuming that this is the case, it is very close to Edaphosaurus, because only Glaucosaurus and Edaphosaurus completely lack both canine teeth and a canine...
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    Edaphosaurus boanerges Edaphosaurus novomexicanus...
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    Well-known pelycosaurs include the genera Dimetrodon, Sphenacodon, Edaphosaurus, and Ophiacodon. Pelycosaur fossils have been found mainly in Europe...
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    life on a forest floor during the Pennsylvanian Period. The animal is Edaphosaurus, a synapsid. Plants are the seed ferns Neuropteris and Pectopteris, the...
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    Ianthasaurus lacks many of the spectacular specializations seen in Edaphosaurus. For example, the marginal dentition of Ianthasaurus is similar to that...
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    as suited for omnivory and low-fibre herbivory. Paleontology portal Edaphosaurus Dimetrodon Mann, A.; Henrici, A. C.; Sues, H.-D.; Pierce, S. E. (2023)...
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    sail along its back, similar to the unrelated synapsids, Dimetrodon and Edaphosaurus. It lived during the boundary between the latest Carboniferous and earliest...
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    modern gliding lizards, and are the oldest known gliding vertebrates. Edaphosaurus pogonias and Platyhystrix – Early Permian, North America and Europe Dimetrodon...
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    terrestrial megafauna (giant animals) in the form of pelycosaurs, such as Edaphosaurus and the carnivorous Dimetrodon. In the mid-Permian period, the climate...
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    hancocki. Among the other large pelycosaurs were Dimetrodon grandis and Edaphosaurus cruciger. Stem mammals (sometimes called protomammals or paramammals...
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    animal, in a similar way to the sails of the pelycosaurs Dimetrodon and Edaphosaurus (and modern elephant and rabbit ears). The plates had blood vessels running...
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  • flourished in the new dry climate. Creatures such as Dimetrodon and Edaphosaurus ruled the new continent. The first conifers evolved, and dominated the...
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    higher up, and were unlike the thin rods seen in the pelycosaur finbacks Edaphosaurus and Dimetrodon, contrasting also with the thicker spines in the iguanodontian...
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    third cervical vertebra, as in Edaphosaurus. The neural spines also sport numerous bony tubercles like that of Edaphosaurus. However, they do not form organised...
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    the first fully terrestrial large vertebrates, the pelycosaurs such as Edaphosaurus. In the mid-Permian period, the climate turned drier, resulting in a...
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  • diversified in the new dry climate, particularly synapsids such as Dimetrodon, Edaphosaurus and therapsids, which gave rise to the ancestors of modern mammals. The...
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    research has favored a display role for the tall sails in Dimetrodon and Edaphosaurus. Both Sphenacodon and Dimetrodon have been depicted with their short...
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    The largest edaphosaurids were Lupeosaurus at 3 m (9.8 ft) long and Edaphosaurus, which could reach even more than 3 m (9.8 ft) in length. The biggest...
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    synapsids fossil skeleton Dicynodont anomodont therapsids fossil skeleton Edaphosaurus edaphosaurid synapsid fossil skeleton Eryops temnospondyl fossil skeleton...
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    †Ianthodon †Milosaurus †Edaphosauridae Bohemiclavulus Edaphosaurus Glaucosaurus Gordodon Ianthasaurus Lupeosaurus Melanedaphodon Ramodendron Remigiomontanus...
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  • Limnoscelis Varanosaurus Ophiacodon Sphenacodon Araeoscelis Dimetrodon Edaphosaurus Cordaites Triassic Saltoposuchus Plateosaurus Podokesaurus Cynognathus...
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    record) From top to bottom and left to right, examples of amniotes: Edaphosaurus, red fox (two synapsids), king cobra and a white-headed buffalo weaver...
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