Varanopidae
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| Scientific name | Varanopidae |
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| Phylum | Chordata |
| Rank | Family |
| Higher classification | Synapsid |
| Family | †Varanopidae; Romer and Price, 1940 |
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| ID | 2343780 |
About Varanopidae
Varanopidae is an extinct family of amniotes that resembled monitor lizards and might have had the same lifestyle, hence their name. Typically, they are considered synapsids that evolved from an Archaeothyris-like synapsid in the Late Carboniferous, but a recent study has recovered them as diapsid reptiles.