Varanosaurus
Varanosaurus ('monitor lizard') is an extinct genus of early ophiacodontid synapsid that lived during the Artinskian and Kungurian ages of the Permian.
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Varanosaurus ('monitor lizard') is an extinct genus of early ophiacodontid synapsid that lived during the Artinskian and Kungurian ages of the Permian.
==Description== thumb|left|Varanosaurus acutirostris being devoured by Dimetrodon limbatus As its name implies, Varanosaurus may have looked superficially similar to present-day monitor lizards, though not related at all.