page_title: Sakmarian
section_title: Synapsids
hierarchical_section_title: Sakmarian / Sakmarian life / Synapsids
caption_attribution_description: Artist's pencil drawing of Ctenospondylus casei, a pelycosaur from the Early Permian of North America
context_page_description: In the geologic timescale, the Sakmarian is an age or stage of the Permian. It is a subdivision of the Cisuralian epoch or series. The Sakmarian lasted between 295 and 290.1 million years ago. It was preceded by the Asselian and followed by the Artinskian.
caption: Ctenospondylus
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