Anthracosaurus is an extinct genus of embolomere that lived during the Late Carboniferous (around 315 million years ago) in what is now Scotland, England, and Ohio.[1][2][3] Measuring around 10 ft (3.0 m) long, it was a large, aquatic eel-like predator. 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".
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mouth. Anthracosaurus probably inhabited swamps, rivers and lakes. Its name is Greek for "coal lizard". The genus and type species Anthracosaurus russelli...
list of reptiliomorphs, (excluding amniotes), throughout their time. Anthracosaurus Archeria Ariekanerpeton Bystrowiana Chroniosaurus Chroniosuchus Cricotus...
Amphibamus, Hyloplesion) or terrestrial (Dendrerpeton, Tuditanus, Anthracosaurus). The Carboniferous rainforest collapse slowed the evolution of amphibians...
traditionally classified as anthracosaurs, including even the genus Anthracosaurus itself, wouldn't belong to Anthracosauria. Laurin (2001) created a different...
hungry adult by moving onto land, but one is eaten by an early tetrapod, Anthracosaurus. As the Carboniferous gives way to the drier Permian, some of these...
sometimes considered synonymous with Embolomeri, and the group's namesake, Anthracosaurus, is an embolomere. However, other authors use the term "Anthracosauria"...
broad sense). Amphibians known from the group include embolomeres (Anthracosaurus, Palaeoherpeton, Pholiderpeton [formerly Eogyrinus]) and baphetids (Baphetes...
Northumberland, England at a locality that also yields the remains of Anthracosaurus russelli. A second species is also known: B. lineatum. "†Batrachiderpeton...
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