Amniota - Synapsida - Ophiacodontidae

Full reference: A. S. Romer. 1937. New genera and species of pelycosaurian reptiles. Proceedings of the New England Zoölogical Club 16:89-95

Belongs to Varanosaurus according to A. S. Romer 1937

Sister taxon: Varanosaurus acutirostris

Type specimen: MCZ 1353, a set of postcrania (incomplete pelvis). Its type locality is Slippery Creek, 20 (Belle Plains Formation), which is in an Artinskian terrestrial claystone/limestone in the Belle Plains Formation of Texas.

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