Peer-reviewed veterinary case report
Romeriscus , the Oldest Known Reptile
- Journal:
- Science
- Year:
- 1967
- Authors:
- Baird, Donald & Carroll, Robert L.
- Affiliation:
- Department of Geology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08540
- Species:
- reptile
Abstract
The description of Romeriscus , a new genus of limnoscelid reptile, is based on a partial skeleton from the Early Pennsylvanian (Westphalian A) of Nova Scotia. Although it is the earliest and most primitive reptile yet known, it is probably already too late and too specialized to be ancestral to the more advanced Carboniferous and Permian captorhinomorphs and pelycosaurs.
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