| Silvanerpeton | |
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| Life restoration ofSilvanerpeton miripedes | |
Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Reptiliomorpha |
| Genus: | †Silvanerpeton Clack,1994 |
| Type species | |
| †Silvanerpeton miripedes Clack, 1994 | |
Silvanerpeton is an extinctgenus of earlyreptiliomorph found byStan Wood in theEast Kirkton Quarry ofWest Lothian,Scotland, in a sequence from the Brigantian substage of theViséan (Lower Carboniferous).[1] The find is important, as the quarry represents terrestrial deposits fromRomer's gap, a period poor in fossils where the higher groups "labyrinthodonts" evolved.
Thetype speciesSilvanerpeton miripedes was named byJennifer A. Clack in 1993/1994. The generic name is derived fromSilvanus, the Roman god of woods. The specific name means "wondrous feet" inLatin. Theholotype is specimenUMZC T1317, a skeleton with skull and skin impressions.[2]
In lifeSilvanerpeton was about 40 cm (1 ft) long. Somepaleontologists think it was semi-aquatic as an adult, others believe only young individuals ofSilvanerpeton were aquatic and the adults were fully terrestrial.
Based on a remarkably well preservedhumerus and other traits, the animal is believed to have been a relatively advancedreptiliomorph, close to the origin ofamniotes.[3]
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