Look up: Edaphosaurus

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   Edaphosaurus
   (pronounced ah-DAFF-oh-SAWR-us) Edaphosaurus meaning pavement lizard - Cope's term for its tooth plates) was an herbivorous early synapsid that lived during the late Carboniferous and early Permian period , about 320 to 258 million years ago, long before the dinosaurs existed. This pelycosaur (early synapsids ) was related to Dimetrodon and had long spines growing out of its backbone. These spines had distinctive crossbars on them and may have been covered by skin, forming a thermoregulatory sai...
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   edaphosaurus
   [n] - heavy-bodied reptile with a dorsal sail or crest
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   edaphosaurus
   noun heavy-bodied reptile with a dorsal sail or crest; of the late Paleozoic
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   Edaphosaurus
   `Edaphosaurus` (Greek: `earth lizard`; from `edaphos`, `ground`; and `sauros`, `lizard`) was a primitive herbivorous pelycosaur. Along with the Diadectidae, `Edaphosaurus` is one of the earliest known plant-eating tetrapods (land-living vertebrates). It had a remarkably small, short and shallow skull, a wide body and thick tail. On its back is a sail, different in shape to that of its contemporary `Dimetrodon`, the vertebral spines being shorter ...
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   Edaphosaurus
   primitive herbivorous relative of mammals that is found in fossil deposits dating from Late Carboniferous to the Early Permian periods (323 to 256 ... [1 related articles]
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   Edaphosaurus
   Edaphosaurus A “ground-earth lizard” that lived during the Late Carboniferous and Early Permian periods. Its fossils have been found in Europe and North America.
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