eupelycosaur

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eupelycosaur (plural eupelycosaurs)

  1. (zoology) Any synapsid of the clade Eupelycosauria.
    • 2011, Anusuya Chinsamy-Turan, Forerunners of Mammals: Radiation • Histology • Biology, page 94:
      Ophiacodontids were a comparatively more depauperate group of early eupelycosaurs typified by marked elongation of the rostrum []