Steppesaurus gurleyi
Sign in to savethumb|left|Outline of Steppesaurus maxilla with skull of Sphenacodon for comparison, showing that the latter had more teeth in a given stretch of upper jaw Steppesaurus is an extinct genus of basal Eupelycosauria belonging to the Sphenacodontidae, related to Dimetrodon and Sphenacodon, from the Late Permian San Angelo Formation of Texas.
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thumb|left|Outline of Steppesaurus maxilla with skull of Sphenacodon for comparison, showing that the latter had more teeth in a given stretch of upper jaw Steppesaurus is an extinct genus of basal Eupelycosauria belonging to the Sphenacodontidae, related to Dimetrodon and Sphenacodon, from the Late Permian San Angelo Formation of Texas.
==Discovery and naming== A maxilla and dentary, holotype FMNH UR 148, were at the Pease River found by Everett Claire Olson in 1950, who named the genus in 1953, together with James R. Beerbower, after J. Steppe who had assisted in the excavation.
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