Artist Rudolph Zallinger depicted "Edaphosaurus" in a more scientifically updated form (with a long tail) alongside "Dimetrodon" and "Sphenacodon" to represent the Permian period in his famous "The Age of Reptiles" mural (1943-1947) at the Yale Peabody Museum. The mural was based on a smaller model version of the painting in egg tempera that later appeared in "The World We Live In" series published in "Life" magazine in 1952 to 1954. The September 7, 1953 issue of "Life" presented "The Age of Reptiles" in reverse image (earliest to latest, left to right) of the mural order as a double-sided foldout page in which "Edaphosaurus" appeared in an Early Permian landscape with plants and animals of the period. The magazine series was edited into a popular book in 1955 that also had a foldout page for Zallinger's "The Age of Reptiles" artwork.