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 | |
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.