Name: Galeops.
Phonetic: Gal-e-ops.
Named By: Robert Broom 1912.
Classification: Chordata, Synapsida,
Therapsida, Anomodontia, Dromasauria.
Species: G. whaitsi (type).
Diet: Herbivore.
Size: Detail unavailable.
Known locations: South Africa.
Time period: Late Permian.
Fossil representation: Partial skull and post
cranial remains.
Galeops is a genus dromasaurian therapsid that lived in South Africa during the Late Permian.
Further reading
- On some New Fossil Reptiles from the Permian and Triassic Beds of
South Africa. Proceedings of the zoological Society London -
Robert Broom - 1912.