Galeops

{{Short description|Extinct genus of therapsids}}

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| fossil_range = Permian

| taxon = Galeops

| authority = Broom, 1912

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Galeops is an extinct genus of anomodont therapsids from the Middle-Late Permian of South Africa. It was described by Robert Broom in 1912.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

. Some cladistic analyses have recovered it as closely related to dicynodonts.{{Cite journal |last1=Fröbisch |first1=Jörg |last2=Reisz |first2=Robert R. |date=July 2011 |title=The postcranial anatomy of Suminia getmanovi (Synapsida: Anomodontia), the earliest known arboreal tetrapod: POSTCRANIUM OF SUMINIA |journal=Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society |language=en |volume=162 |issue=3 |pages=661–698 |doi=10.1111/j.1096-3642.2010.00685.x|doi-access=free }}

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Category:Anomodont genera

Category:Fossil taxa described in 1912

Category:Taxa named by Robert Broom

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