Varanops was a large amniote, around the size of the modern monitor lizards. It was about 1.2 m (3.9 ft) long, and had large limbs and sharp, backward-curving teeth. It was one of many agile, voracious predators among Permian tetrapods. Even though it was large for its time, Varanops was very small compared to the dinosaurs that came much later ...

Apr 13, 2015 · Varanops did not survive to see the Permian extinction,‭ ‬and is thought to have succumbed to competition from both the diapsids and therapsids that were becoming more common,‭ ‬and more capable predators. – American Permian vertebrates. – University of Chicago Press, Chicago: 130 pp. – Samuel W. Williston – 1911.

Varanops, a member of the clade Varanopidae, is a large early Permian carnivorous synapsid reaching up to 1.5 m in length. Initially identified and described as Varanosaurus brevirostris from the Cacops bonebed, near Indian Creek, Baylor County in Texas ( Williston, 1910 , 1911 ), it was later recognized as a distinct new genus, Varanops ...

Varanops was a large amniote, around the size of the modern monitor lizards. It was about 1.2 m (3.9 ft) long, and had large limbs and sharp, backward-curving teeth. It was one of many agile, voracious predators among Permian tetrapods.

Varanops's diet included large vertebrates rather than insects. Sturdy limbs and a robust torso gave it the strength to chase and kill prey as large as itself, nipping meat off the bone with its elongated incisors.

Varanopidae is an extinct family of amniotes known from the Late Carboniferous to Middle Permian that resembled monitor lizards (with the name of the group deriving from the monitor lizard genus Varanus) and may have filled a similar niche.

Varanops is an extinct genus of Early Permian varanopid synapsids known from Texas and Oklahoma of the United States. It was first named by Samuel Wendell Williston in 1911 as a second species of Varanosaurus , Varanosaurus brevirostris .

Varanops In Depth As a late surviving member of the group,‭ ‬Varanops is often cited as one of the last of the pelycosaurs.‭ ‬With its relatively long legs,‭ ‬Varanops may have been more suited to open ground,‭ ‬as opposed to dense undergrowth where they may have been of a hindrance.‭ ‬They may have also provided for …

May 19, 2010 · A comprehensive revision of Varanops brevirostris on the basis of a large, well-preserved specimen from a new Lower Permian locality in Texas provides valuable new anatomical information and additional autapomorphies for this varanopid synapsid taxon.

Jan 13, 2020 · Varanopids represent a long-lived eupelycosaur clade that shared many superficial characteristics with extant monitor lizards, including long, slender limbs and sometimes recurved, ziphodont teeth [37], and survived from the late Carboniferous …