In Depth Madygenerpeton is a genus of reptilomorph that lived in Kyrgyzstan during the Triassic. Like relative genera, Madygenerpeton had a row of bony plates that ran down the length of its spine. Further Reading - A chroniosuchid from the Triassic of Kyrgyzstan and analysis of chroniosuchian relationships. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 160:515-530. … Read more
In Depth Eoherpeton is a genus of reptilomorph that is known to have lived in what is now Scotland during the Carboniferous. Further Reading - A new genus and species of anthracosaur amphibian from the Lower Carboniferous of Scotland and the status of Pholidogaster pisciformis Huxley. - Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, … Read more
In Depth 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.
In Depth Pteroplax was an eogyrinid reptiliomorph that lived in England during the Carboniferous period. Like relative genera, Pteroplax had an elongated narrow body with reduced limbs. This kind of body enabled Pteroplax to squeeze in between tight spaces and obstacles to hunt down prey such as fish and small amphibians. Further Reading - Notes … Read more
In Depth Jiyuanitectum is a genus of reptiliomorph that lived in China during the Permian. So far the only part of this animal that is known is one of the bony plates that would have run down the length of the back. Further Reading - The Jiyuan tetrapod fauna of the Upper Permian of China—2. … Read more
In Depth Laosuchus is a genus of reptilomorph that lived in Asia about the time of the Permian/Triassic boundary. Many minute canals have been found running within areas of the skull, and in life these may have been housing for receptors to allow Laosuchus to detect other animals either by heat or electrical impulses from … Read more
In Depth Alveusdectes is an important discovery as it represents one of the last surviving diadectimorphs to live. Diadectomorphs (those like Diadectes) were reptilomorphs that rose to prominence during the Carboniferous, but they were eventually replaced by therapsids and true reptiles. What the discovery of Alveusdectes tells us is that while their numbers declined during … Read more
In Depth An otherwise unassuming little reptilomorph, the presence of Tseajaia in the earlier half of the Permian period is at least proof that some reptilomorphs made it this far in Earth’s history. The teeth of Tseajaia are notably blunt which has led to the idea that Tseajaia may have been slightly if not exclusively … Read more