Oedaleops Temporal range: Early Permian,
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Restoration of Oedaleops campi | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Synapsida |
Clade: | †Caseasauria |
Family: | †Eothyrididae |
Genus: | †Oedaleops Langston, 1965 |
Type species | |
†Oedaleops campi Langston, 1965
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Oedaleops is an extinct genus of caseasaur synapsids from the Early Permian of the Southwestern United States. Fossils have been found in the Cutler Formation in New Mexico, which dates back to the Wolfcampian stage of the Early Permian. All remains belong to the single known species Oedaleops campi. Oedaleops was closely related to Eothyris, and both are part of the family Eothyrididae. Like Eothyris, it was probably an insectivore.