Ophiacodon

Ophiacodon (meaning "snake tooth") is an extinct genus of synapsids belonging to the family Ophiacodontidae that lived from the Late Carboniferous to the Early Permian in North America and Europe. The genus was named along with its type species O. mirus by paleontologist Othniel Charles Marsh in 1878 and currently includes five other species.[1] As an ophiacodontid, Ophiacodon is one of the most basal synapsids and is close to the evolutionary line leading to mammals.[2]
Category:Animals
Category:Creatures
Category:Ophiacodontids
Category:Eupelycosauria genera
Category:Carboniferous synapsids
Category:Cisuralian synapsids
Category:Cisuralian synapsids of north america
Category:Carboniferous north america
Category:Permian north america
Category:Fossil taxa described in 1878