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EOSIMOPS
(e-os-sim-ops)
Named By: Robert Broom in 1921
Time Period: Middle Permian
Location: South Africa
Size: Unavailable
Diet: Herbivore
Fossil(s): Remains of several individuals including skull and post cranial skeletal remains
Classification: | Chordata | Synapsida | Therapsida | Anomodontia | Dicynodontia |
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Eosimops is an extinct genus of pylaecephalid dicynodont. They were small synapsids superficially resembling modern mammals. Eosimops is known from several skull specimens, as well as one complete skeleton. Eosimops lived during the Middle Permian of South Africa.

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