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Varanops ✝

Source Data
SourceIDLink
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)38897https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=38897
Rankgenus (PBDB)
Taxonomy (PBDB)Life : Animalia : Chordata : Osteichthyes : Cotylosauria : Varanopidae : Varanops
Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)
RankNameAuthor
-Eukaryota
-OpisthokontaCavalier-Smith 1987
kingdomAnimalia
-TriploblasticaLankester 1877
-NephrozoaJondelius et al. 2002
-DeuterostomiaGrobben 1908
phylumChordataHaeckel 1847
subphylumVertebrataLamarck 1801
superclassGnathostomataGegenbauer 1874
-Osteichthyes
-SarcopterygiiRomer 1955
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha
subclassTetrapodomorpha
-Tetrapoda
-ReptiliomorphaSäve-Söderbergh 1934
-AnthracosauriaSäve-Söderbergh 1934
-Batrachosauria
-Cotylosauria
-AmniotaHaeckel 1866
-SynapsidaOsborn 1903
suborderEupelycosauriaKemp 1982
familyVaranopidae
-NeovaranopsiaSpindler et al. 2018
subfamilyVaranodontinaeModesto et al. 2001
genusVaranopsWatson 1914
Opinions (PBDB)
NameRankOpinionEvidenceAuthor
Varanopsgenusbelongs to Varanopsinaestated with evidenceRomer, 1936
Varanopsgenusbelongs to Varanopseidaestated without evidenceReisz, 1986
Varanopsgenusbelongs to VaranopseidaeimpliedCarroll, 1988
Varanopsgenusbelongs to Varanodontinaestated with evidenceModesto et al., 2001
Status (PBDB)extinct
Taxon Size (PBDB)2
First Recorded Appearance290 - 272 Ma
Permian
Last Recorded Appearance279 - 268 Ma
Permian
Environmentterrestrial (based on Amniota)
Motilityactively mobile (based on Osteichthyes)
Taphonomyphosphatic (based on Vertebrata)
Primary Reference (PBDB)R. L. Carroll. 1988. Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

NameStatusCommon Name(s)Fossil OccurrencesOldestYoungest
Varanosaurus brevirostris ✝
species		accepted (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)		3290 Ma
Permian		279 Ma
Permian

Synonymy List

YearName and Author
1914Varanoops Williston
1930Varanoops Hay p. 48
1936Varanops Romer p. 91
1986Varanops Reisz
1988Varanops Carroll
2001Varanops Modesto et al. p. 256
2006Varanops Maddin et al. p. 957
2018Varanops Spindler et al.

References

Carroll R. L. (1988) , Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution, 1-698
Hay O. P. (1930) Second Bibliography and Catalogue of the Fossil Vertebrata of North America, Carnegie Institution of Washington 390 II, 1-1074
Romer A. S. (1936) Studies on American Permo-Carboniferous reptiles, Problems of Paleontology 1, 85-93
Reisz R. R. (1986) Pelycosauria, Handbuch der Paläoherpetologie / Encyclopedia of Paleoherpetology 17A, 1-102
Modesto S. P., Sidor C. A., et al (2001) A second varanopseid skull from the Upper Permian of South Africa: implications for Late Permian ‘pelycosaur’ evolution, Lethaia 34 4, 249-259 doi:10.1080/002411601753292971
Maddin H. C., Evans D. C., et al (2006) An Early Permian varanodontine varanopid (Synapsida: Eupelycosauria) from the Richards Spur locality, Oklahoma, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 26 4, 957-966 doi:10.1671/0272-4634(2006)26[957:aepvvs]2.0.co;2
Spindler F., Werneburg R., et al (2018) First arboreal ’pelycosaurs’ (Synapsida: Varanopidae) from the early Permian Chemnitz Fossil Lagerstätte, SE Germany, with a review of varanopid phylogen, Palaeontologische Zeitschrift 92, 315-364
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!
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