- amphibians.
Amniotes diversify rapidly into synapsids, parareptiles,
cotylosaurs,
protorothyridids and diapsids.
Rhizodonts remained common before they...
-
Eunotosaurus from
South Africa was seen as the "missing link"
between cotylosaurs and
chelonians throughout much of the
early 20th century. However, more...
-
limbs with
short digits. This
general body
shape is
shared with
other ‘
cotylosaurs’ such as captorhinids, diadectomorphs, and seymouriamorphs.
Another general...
- seen as a very
early reptile, part of an
evolutionary grade known as "
cotylosaurs",
which also
included many
other stout-bodied
Permian reptiles or reptile-like...
- Paleontology.
Those four
subclasses were:
Anapsida – no
fenestrae –
cotylosaurs and
chelonia (turtles and relatives)
Synapsida – one low
fenestra – pelycosaurs...
-
zoologist D. M. S.
Watson claimed that
Eunotosaurus was
transitional between cotylosaurs (now
referred to as captorhinids) and Chelonia. He
compared it to "Archichelone"...
- them as stem-amniotes instead.
Llewellyn Ivor
Price (1937). "Two new
cotylosaurs from the
Permian of Texas".
Proceedings of the New
England Zoölogical...
- lizards,
terrestrial (like Hoplosuchus) and
aquatic crocodylomorphs,
cotylosaurs,
several species of pterosaurs, like Harpactognathus, and
early mammals...
- Williston, S. W.
Restoration of
Seymouria Baylorensis Broili, an
American Cotylosaur. The
Journal of Geology: 1911, vol. 19, no. 3, pp. 232–237. JSTOR. Accessed...
- lizard,
about 30 cm in length.
Llewellyn Ivor
Price (1937). "Two new
cotylosaurs from the
Permian of Texas".
Proceedings of the New
England Zoölogical...
