Romeriscus , the Oldest Known Reptile
- 7 July 1967
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 157 (3784) , 56-59
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.157.3784.56
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.This publication has 6 references indexed in Scilit:
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