
Varanosaurus ('monitor lizard') is an extinct genus of early ophiacodontid synapsid that lived during the Artinskian and Kungurian ages of the Permian.
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.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).