Erpetonyx
| Erpetonyx Temporal range: Pennsylvanian, 303.7-289.9Ma | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Procolophonomorpha |
| Genus: | Erpetonyx Modesto et al., 2015 |
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Erpetonyx arsenaultorum is a species of bolosaurian parareptile from the Gzhelian stage of the Carboniferous. It is known from a single, articulated and mostly complete specimen from Cape Egmont, in southern Prince Edward Island, Canada. It the earliest known parareptile, and brings back the origins of several clades into the Carboniferous.[1]
References
- ↑ Modesto, S. P.; Scott, D. M.; MacDougall, M. J.; Sues, H.-D.; Evans, D. C.; Reisz, R. R. (2015). "The oldest parareptile and the early diversification of reptiles" (PDF). Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 282 (1801): 20141912–20141912. doi:10.1098/rspb.2014.1912.