| Paleothyris | |
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| Paleothyris acadiana fossil | |
Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Genus: | †Paleothyris Carroll, 1969 |
| Species: | †P. acadiana |
| Binomial name | |
| †Paleothyris acadiana Carroll, 1969 | |
Paleothyris was a small, agile,anapsidromeriidanreptile which lived in theMoscovian (Carboniferous) age of theLate Carboniferous inNova Scotia.
Paleothyris had sharp teeth and largeeyes, meaning that it was likely a nocturnal hunter. It was about a foot long. It probably fed oninsects and other smaller animals found on the floor of itsforest home.Paleothyris was an earlysauropsid, yet it still had some features that were more primitive, morelabyrinthodont-like thanreptile-like, especially its skull, which lackedfenestrae, holes found in the skulls of most modern reptiles and mammals.[1]
Arjan, Mann, et al. “Carbonodraco Lundi Gen Et Sp. Nov., the Oldest Parareptile, from Linton, Ohio, and New Insights into the Early Radiation of Reptiles.” Royal Society Open Science, 27 Nov. 2019, royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.191191.
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