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. Th
Edaphosauridae is a family of mostly large Late Carboniferous to Early Permian synapsids. Edaphosaur fossils are so far known only from North America and Europe. Edaphosaurids transitioned from being