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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]
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 Visean age of the Carboniferous. Members of the genus bore a superficial resemblance to modern-day lizards .
[20] [21] The most important single discovery was a tetrapod nicknamed "Lizzie", a small lizard-like animal (Westlothiana), [22] which is possibly the oldest known reptile. [ 23 ] [ 24 ] Ever mindful of commercial opportunity, in 1986, Wood exhibited his large collection on tour, [ n 3 ] opened by David Attenborough, entitled " Mr. Wood's ...
East Kirkton Quarry, or simply East Kirkton, is a former limestone quarry in West Lothian, Scotland, now a renowned fossil site.The quarry is known for terrestrial and freshwater fossils about 335 million years old, from the late Viséan stage of the Mississippian subperiod (Early Carboniferous Period).
Silvanerpeton is an extinct genus of early reptiliomorph found by Stan Wood in the East Kirkton Quarry of West Lothian, Scotland, in a sequence from the Brigantian substage of the Viséan (Lower Carboniferous). [1]
It is known from two fossil specimens found within the Viséan-age East Kirkton Quarry in West Lothian. The type and only species, E. rolfei, was named in 1994. [1] Eldeceeon is thought to be closely related to embolomeres, but it has several distinguishing features including long limbs and a short trunk.
For many years after Romer's gap was first recognised, only two sites yielding Tournaisian-age tetrapod fossils were known; one is in East Lothian, Scotland, and another in Blue Beach, Nova Scotia, where in 1841, Sir William Logan, the first Director of the Geological Survey of Canada, found footprints from a tetrapod.
West Lothian, Scotland This site has produced numerous well-preserved fossils of early tetrapods like temnospondyls or reptiliomorphs, and large arthropods like scorpions or eurypterids. Silvanerpeton, a possible reptiliomorph: Bear Gulch Limestone: 324 Ma: Montana, US A limestone-rich geological lens in central Montana.