Edaphosauridae
Extinct family of synapsids / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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.
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Edaphosauridae | |
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Mounted skeleton of Edaphosaurus pogonias in the Field Museum of Natural History | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Synapsida |
Clade: | Sphenacomorpha |
Family: | †Edaphosauridae Cope, 1882 |
Type species | |
†Edaphosaurus pogonias Cope, 1882 | |
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