Varanops

Taxobox
name = "Varanops"
fossil_range = early Late Permian

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image_width = 250px
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Synapsida
ordo = Pelycosauria
familia = Varanopseidae
subfamilia = Varanodontinae
genus = "Varanops"
genus_authority = Wlliston, 1914
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision =
* "Varanops brevirostris" Willinston, 1911

"Varanops" was a pelycosaur of the family Varanopseidae. It lived in the Late Permian of North America. It is one of the surviving pelycosaurs of Late Permian, because many pelycosaurs died out by the end of the Early Permian, and another pelycosaurian extinction by the end of Middle Permian. But "Varanops" may have met its end because the gorgonopsids, and the therocephalians were the dominant carnivores during much of the Late Permian, and the diapsids were evolving into new, advanced forms. "Varanops" became extinct by the early Late Permian as with many other varanopseids.

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External links

* [http://www.palaeos.com/Vertebrates/Units/Unit390/200.html#Varanops Varanops] - at Paleos