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pectoral girdle in
Petrolacosaurus is
light in
comparison to the m****ive
girdles found in taxa such as pelycosaurs.
Petrolacosaurus specimens had a clavicle...
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Carboniferous to the
Early Permian. The
group contains the
genera Araeoscelis,
Petrolacosaurus, the
possibly aquatic Spinoaequalis, and less well-known
genera such...
- "Younginiformes" (later, more specifically,
emended to
Youngina capensis) than to
Petrolacosaurus (representing Araeoscelidia). The
earliest known neodiapsids like Orovenator...
- specifically, the most
inclusive clade containing Captorhinus aguti and
Petrolacosaurus kansensis but not
Procolophon trigoniceps, by
Tsuji and Müller (2009)...
- the
Joggins Formation in Nova Scotia, and
possibly New Brunswick.
Petrolacosaurus, the
earliest known diapsid reptile,
lived during the late Carboniferous...
- such as
Petrolacosaurus, in that its
teeth were
larger and blunter;
possibly they were used for
cracking insect carapaces.
Unlike Petrolacosaurus, which...
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Fossils of the
basal pelycosaur Archaeothyris and the
basal diapsid Petrolacosaurus are also
found in the same
region of Nova Scotia,
although from a higher...
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Araeoscelis (9) but more than
Petrolacosaurus (6). The
maxilla has
about 25 teeth, more than
Araeoscelis (19) but less than
Petrolacosaurus (35). The
fourth and...
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found by
separating it from a
block that also
contained the
remains of
Petrolacosaurus and Haptodus. The
evolutionary significance of the
taxon wasn't realized...
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appear as a
giant tarantula-like
spider hunting the cat-sized
reptile Petrolacosaurus in the
segment detailing the Carboniferous, with the reconstruction...
