Westlothiana
Extinct genus of tetrapods / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Westlothiana ("animal from West Lothian") is a genus of reptile-like tetrapod that lived about 338 million years ago during the latest part of the Viséan age of the Carboniferous. The genus is known from a single species, Westlothiana lizziae. It is the oldest known uncontroversial tetrapod, closely related to but not an amniote.[1]
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Westlothiana | |
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Type specimen of Westlothiana lizziae | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Superclass: | Tetrapoda |
Clade: | Reptiliomorpha (?) |
Genus: | †Westlothiana Smithson and Rolfe, 1990 |
Type species | |
Westlothiana lizziae Smithson and Rolfe, 1990 |
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