Edaphosaurus
id:
edaphosaurus-183-9736981
title:
Edaphosaurus
text:
Edaphosaurus is a genus of extinct edaphosaurid synapsids that lived in what is now North America and Europe around 303.4 to 272.5 million years ago, during the Late Carboniferous to Early Permian. American paleontologist Edward Drinker Cope first described Edaphosaurus in 1882, naming it for the "dental pavement" on both the upper and lower jaws, from the Greek edaphos έδαφος and σαῦρος (sauros) ("lizard"). Edaphosaurus is important as one of the earliest-known, large, plant-eating (herbivorous
brand slug:
wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
Extinct genus of synapsids
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edaphosaurus
date created:
2005-09-03T20:15:32Z
date modified:
2024-09-07T04:44:08Z
main entity:
{"identifier":"Q131688","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q131688"}
image:
{"content_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4d/Edaphosaurus_boanerges_AMNH.jpg","width":2592,"height":1593}
fields total:
13
integrity:
16