Named By: | Samuel Wendell Williston in 1914 |
Time Period: | Early Permian, 279.5-272.5 Ma |
Location: | USA, Oklahoma - Garber Formation, Texas - Arroyo Formation |
Size: | About 1 to 1.2 metes long |
Diet: | unavailable |
Fossil(s): | Several specimens, often of juveniles |
Classification: | | Chordata | Synapsida | Pelycosauria | Varanopidae | |
Varanops is an extinct genus of Early Permian varanopid synapsid known from Texas and Oklahoma of the United States. It was first named by Samuel Wendell Williston in 1911 as a second species of Varanosaurus, Varanosaurus brevirostris. In 1914, Samuel W. Williston reassigned it to its own genus and the type species is Varanops brevirostris.