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Sphenacodon

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Sphenacodon is a genus of sphenacodont that lived during the Early Permian period. Sphenacodon was related to Dimetrodon.

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Sphenacodon made an appearance in a famous lost movie called The Lost Spider-Pit Sequence. In the movie, it became described as a huge two-legged lizard, and was inaccurately portrayed as being capable of eating humans.

A Sphenacodon pair.
A pair of female Sphenacodon during the shady landscape of the Permian.