Anthracodromeus
Name:
Anthracodromeus
(Coal runner).
Phonetic: An-fra-co-dro-me-us.
Named By: Robert L. Carroll & Donald
Baird - 1972.
Synonyms: Sauropleura longipes, Tuditanus
longipes.
Classification: Chordata, Reptilia, Romeriida,
Protorothyrididae.
Species: A. longipes (type).
Diet: Insectivore.
Size: About 16 centimetres long.
Known locations: USA, Ohio.
Time period: Westphalian of the Carboniferous.
Fossil representation: (AMNH 6940) Almost
complete skeleton.
Originally named as Sauropleura longipes by Edward Drinker Cope in 1875, S. longipes became a new genus in 1972. Anthracodromeus means ‘coal runner’, a reference to the fact that it was discovered in a coal mine, while the species name means ‘long foot’. Anthracodromeus was probably a small predator of invertebrates.
Further reading
- Carboniferous Stem-Reptiles of the Family Romeriidae, Robert L.
Carroll & Donald Baird - 1972.
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