The Czech illustrator and paleoartist Zdeněk Burian created a number of vivid paintings of "Edaphosaurus" set in Paleozoic landscapes. (The choice to portray "Edaphosaurus" was based in part on edaphosaurid fossils found in native Carboniferous rocks in what is now the Czech Republic, originally identified as ""Naosaurus"" and now called "Bohemiclavulus".) These images appeared in the series of popular general audience books on prehistoric animals that Burian produced in collaboration with Czech paleontologists Josef Augusta and Zdeněk Špinar beginning in the 1930s and on into the 1970s. Some of the books were translated into other languages, including English. Burian's painting from 1941 restored "Edaphosaurus" with a large carnivorous head and short tail, reflecting an outdated ""Naosaurus"" concept of the animal. The artwork was featured in Josef Augusta's "Divy prasvěta" ("Wonders of the Prehistoric World"), published during World War II in biweekly pamphlet form between 1941 and 1942, and then republished as a full book after the war. Burian subsequently corrected his 1941 "Edaphosaurus" reconstruction in a painting with the more accurate small head of a plant-eater and a long tail, the version of "Edaphosaurus" that appeared in later translated editions of Burian's books with Augusta such as "Prehistoric Animals" (1956). Another painting of "Edaphosaurus" by Burian appeared on the cover of the 1968 third edition of the juvenile popular science book "Ztracený svět" ("The Lost World"), also written by Augusta. The book "Life Before Man" (1972), written by Zdeněk Špinar, included an additional depiction of "Edaphosaurus" by Burian.