Microvaranops
Extinct genus of tetrapods
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Microvaranops is a Middle Permian synapsid of the family Varanopidae from the Abrahamskraal Formation of South Africa.[1] It includes one species, Microvaranops parentis, which was probably arboreal. A slab containing five specimens of Microvaranops indicates that it gathered or lived in groups.
| Microvaranops Temporal range: Late Permian, | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Synapsida |
| Family: | †Varanopidae |
| Genus: | †Microvaranops Spindler et al., 2018 |
| Type species | |
| †Microvaranops parentis Spindler et al., 2018 | |
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