Varanosaurus
Sign in to saveVaranosaurus ('monitor lizard') is an extinct genus of early ophiacodontid synapsid that lived during the Artinskian and Kungurian ages of the Permian.
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It sits within the topics Cisuralian synapsids of North America, Fossil taxa described in 1904 and Kungurian genera.
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Varanosaurus ('monitor lizard') is an extinct genus of early ophiacodontid synapsid that lived during the Artinskian and Kungurian ages of the Permian.
==Description== thumb|left|Varanosaurus acutirostris being devoured by Dimetrodon limbatus As its name implies, Varanosaurus may have looked superficially similar to present-day monitor lizards, though not related at all.
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