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Anthracosauridae
| Description | Anthracosaurus is an extinct genus of embolomere, a possible distant relative of reptiles that lived during the Late Carboniferous (around 310 million years ago) in what is now Scotland and England. It was a large, aquatic eel-like predator able to grow up to 3 m (10 ft) in length. It has a robust skull about 40 centimetres (1.3 ft) in length with large teeth in the jaws and on the roof of the mouth. Anthracosaurus probably inhabited swamps, rivers and lakes. Its name is Greek for "coal lizard". From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthracosauridae, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0. | |||||||
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| Rank | family | |||||||
| Taxonomy (GBIF) | Life : Animalia : Chordata : Amphibia : Anthracosauridae | |||||||
| Taxonomic Status (GBIF) | accepted | |||||||
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| Scientific Name | Anthracosauridae | |||||||
| Wikipedia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthracosauridae |
Subtaxa
| Name | Status | Common Name(s) | Fossil Occurrences | Oldest | Youngest |
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 Anthracosaurus ✝genus | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | 4 | 318 Ma Carboniferous | 311 Ma Carboniferous | |
| Eobaphetes genus | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
References
| Benton, M.J. (ed). (1993). The Fossil Record 2. Chapman & Hall, London, 845 pp. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!
