Silvanerpeton
Name:
Silvanerpeton.
Phonetic: Sil-van-er-pe-ton.
Named By: Jennifer A. Clack - 1994.
Classification: Chordata, Reptiliomorpha,
Embolomeri.
Species: S. miripedes
(type).
Diet: Insectivore.
Size: Roughly about 40 centimetres long.
Known locations: Scotland - East Kirkton
Limestone Formation.
Time period: Late Visean/Early Serpukhovian of the
Carboniferous.
Fossil representation: Almost complete individuals.
Silvanerpeton is a genus of possibly semi aquatic reptilomorph that lived in Scotland during the Carboniferous.
Further reading
- Silvanerpeton miripedes, a new
anthracosauroid from the Vis�an of
East Kirkton, West Lothian, Scotland. - Transactions of the
Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences 84:369-376. -
Jennifer A. Clack - 1994.
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