Ophiacodon
Sign in to saveOphiacodon (meaning "snake tooth") is an extinct genus of synapsid belonging to the family Ophiacodontidae that lived from the Late Carboniferous to the Early Permian in North America and Europe. The genus was named along with its type species O. mirus by paleontologist Othniel Charles Marsh in 1878 and currently includes five other species. As an ophiacodontid, Ophiacodon is one of the most basal synapsids and is close to the evolutionary line leading to mammals.
Wikidata facts
- Parent taxon
- Ophiacodontidae
- Mass
- 230
- Image
- Ophiacodon retroversus.jpg
- Length
- 3
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- start time
- 306000000-
- end time
- 280000000-
- time period
- Cisuralian
- Commons category
- Ophiacodon
- taxon name
- Ophiacodon
- taxon rank
- genus
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Ophiacodon (meaning "snake tooth") is an extinct genus of synapsid belonging to the family Ophiacodontidae that lived from the Late Carboniferous to the Early Permian in North America and Europe. The genus was named along with its type species O. mirus by paleontologist Othniel Charles Marsh in 1878 and currently includes five other species. As an ophiacodontid, Ophiacodon is one of the most basal synapsids and is close to the evolutionary line leading to mammals.
thumb|Paleoart|Life restoration of Ophiacodon retroversus
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