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Categories: Permian United States, Carboniferous United States, Fossil taxa described in 1882, Taxa named by Edward Drinker Cope, Articles with 'species' microformats
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edaphosaurus  Brachycnemius  Dimetrodon cruciger  Edaphosaurus boanerges  Edaphosaurus colohistion
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Heavy-bodied reptile with a dorsal sail or crest; of the late Paleozoic WordNet 3.0
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Heavy-bodied reptile with a dorsal sail or crest; of the late Paleozoic WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
Edaphosaurus is a genus of extinct edaphosaurid synapsids that lived in what is now North America and Europe around 303.4 to 272.5 million years ago, during the Late Carboniferous to Early Permian. Wikipedia
Any of several dinosaurs of the family Edaphosauridae, from the Carboniferous and Permian periods, that had a distinctive dorsal sail or crest. Wiktionary
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