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Galeops

Galeops is an extinct genus of anomodont therapsids from the Middle-Late Permian of South Africa. It was described by Robert Broom in 1912. Some cladistic analyses have recovered it as closely related to dicynodonts.

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Galeops
Temporal range: Permian
Galeops skull
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Synapsida
Clade: Therapsida
Clade: Anomodontia
Clade: Chainosauria
Genus: Galeops
Broom, 1912

Galeops is an extinct genus of anomodont therapsids from the Middle-Late Permian of South Africa. It was described by Robert Broom in 1912.1 Some cladistic analyses have recovered it as closely related to dicynodonts.2

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  1. Broom R. On some new fossil reptiles from the Permian and Triassic beds of South Africa Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1912: 859–876 .
  2. Fröbisch, Jörg; Reisz, Robert R. (July 2011). "The postcranial anatomy of Suminia getmanovi (Synapsida: Anomodontia), the earliest known arboreal tetrapod: POSTCRANIUM OF SUMINIA". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 162 (3): 661–698. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2010.00685.x.