原古蜥科(Protorothyrididae)是群小型、类似蜥蜴的爬行动物,生存于石炭纪晚期到二叠纪早期的北美洲。它们的颅骨没有洞孔,如同现代乌龟,因此过去被归类于无孔亚纲大鼻龙目,但目前被认为与双孔亚纲同属真爬行动物演化支[1][2][3][4]

原古蜥科
化石时期:307.1–294.6 Ma
原古蜥
科学分类 编辑
界: 动物界 Animalia
门: 脊索动物门 Chordata
纲: 爬行纲 Reptilia
演化支 真爬行动物 Eureptilia
演化支 卢默龙类 Romeriida
科: 原古蜥科 Protorothyrididae
Price, 1937

许多原始爬行动物过去曾被归类于原古蜥科,例如:林蜥古窗龙BrouffiaCoelostegus,近年被发现是更原始的真爬行动物[5]

参考资料

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  1. ^ Llewellyn Ivor Price. Two new cotylosaurs from the Permian of Texas. Proceedings of the New England Zoölogical Club. 1937, 11: 97–102. 
  2. ^ Alfred Sherwood Romer. Late Pennsylvanian and Early Permian Vertebrates of the Pittsburgh-West Virginia Region. Annals of Carnegie Museum. 1952, 33: 47–113. 
  3. ^ R. L. Moodie. The Pennsylvanic Amphibia of the Mazon Creek, Illinois, Shales. Kansas University Science Bulletin. 1912, 6 (2): 232–259. 
  4. ^ Robert L. Carroll and Donald Baird. Carboniferous Stem-Reptiles of the Family Romeriidae. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 1972, 143 (5): 321–363. 
  5. ^ Müller, J.; and Reisz, R. R. The phylogeny of early eureptiles: comparing parsimony and Bayesian approaches in the investigation of a basal fossil clade. Systematic Biology. 2006, 55 (3): 503–511. PMID 16861212. doi:10.1080/10635150600755396.