Silvanerpeton
| Silvanerpeton Temporal range:
Early Carboniferous | |
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| Life restoration of Silvanerpeton miripedes | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Reptiliomorpha |
| Genus: | †Silvanerpeton Clack, 1994
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| Type species | |
| †Silvanerpeton miripedes Clack, 1994
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Silvanerpeton is an extinct
labyrinthodonts
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Jennifer A. Clack in 1993/1994. The generic name is derived from Silvanus, the Roman god of woods. The specific name means "wondrous feet" in Latin. The holotype is specimen UMZC T1317, a skeleton with skull and skin impressions.[2]
Description
In life Silvanerpeton was about 40 cm (1 ft) long. Some paleontologists think it was semi-aquatic as an adult, others believe only young individuals of Silvanerpeton were aquatic and the adults were fully terrestrial.
Classification
Based on a remarkably well preserved humerus and other traits, the animal is believed to have been a relatively advanced reptiliomorph, close to the origin of amniotes.[3]
References
- ^ "East Kirkton, Bathgate" (PDF). Geological Conservation Review. pp. 1–12. Archived from the original (PDF) on January 30, 2018.
- ^ Clack, J.A. 1994. "Silvanerpeton miripedes, a new anthracosauroid from the Viséan of East Kirkton, West Lothian, Scotland". Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences 84 (for 1993): 369–376
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