Paleothyris
| Paleothyris | |
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| Paleothyris acadiana fossil | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Genus: | †Paleothyris Carroll, 1969 |
| Species: | †P. acadiana
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| Binomial name | |
| †Paleothyris acadiana Carroll, 1969
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Paleothyris was a small, agile,
labyrinthodont-like than reptile-like, especially its skull, which lacked fenestrae, holes found in the skulls of most modern reptiles and mammals.[1]
See also
Skull reconstruction - Casineria, from 340 million years ago, a basal amniote.
- Hylonomus, from 312 million years ago, another early anapsid reptile
- Petrolacosaurus, from 302 million years ago, the first diapsid reptile
- synapsid(proto-mammal)
- Carboniferous tetrapods
References
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.
- JSTOR 1302357.
