Coelostegus
Coelostegus Temporal range: Late Carboniferous,
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Clade: | Eureptilia |
Genus: | †Coelostegus Carroll & Baird, 1972 |
Species: | †C. prothales
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Binomial name | |
†Coelostegus prothales Carroll & Baird, 1972
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Coelostegus is an extinct genus of Late Carboniferous (late Westphalian stage) basal reptile known from Pilsen of Czech Republic. It is known from the holotype ČGH 3027, a partial skeleton of an immature individual. It was collected in the Nýřany site from the Nýřany Member of the . It was first named by Robert L. Carroll and Donald Baird in 1972 and the type species is Coelostegus prothales.[1] The most recent phylogenic study of primitive reptile relationships found Coelostegus to be the basalmost known eureptile.[2]
References[]
- ^ Robert L. Carroll & Donald Baird (1972). "Carboniferous Stem-Reptiles of the Family Romeriidae". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 143 (5): 321–363.
- ^ Müller, J.; Reisz, R. R. (2006). "The phylogeny of early eureptiles: comparing parsimony and Bayesian approaches in the investigation of a basal fossil clade". Systematic Biology. 55 (3): 503–511. doi:10.1080/10635150600755396. PMID 16861212.
Categories:
- Carboniferous reptiles of Europe
- Prehistoric eureptiles
- Fossil taxa described in 1972
- Prehistoric reptile genera
- Prehistoric reptile stubs
- Carboniferous animal stubs