Hostname: page-component-cd9895bd7-fscjk Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-12-28T12:21:13.722Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Eldeceeon rolfei, a new reptiliomorph from the Viséan of East Kirkton, West Lothian, Scotland

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2011

T. R. Smithson
T. R. Smithson
Affiliation:
Cambridge Regional College, Newmarket Road, Cambridge CB5 8EG, U.K.
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

Eldeceeon rolfei gen. et sp. nov. a primitive anthracosaur from the Brigantian of East Kirkton, Scotland, is described. Uniquely among non-mammalian tetrapods, its ribs are restricted to the anterior half of the presacral column. Eldeceeon lacks the diagnostic features of the two suborders of anthracosaur, the Anthracosauroideae and Seymouriamorpha, and may represent their sister group.

Keywords

AnthracosauriaCarboniferoussystematicsTetrapodaEast KirktonScotland
Type
Research Article
Information
Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of The Royal Society of Edinburgh , Volume 84 , Issue 3-4: Volcanism and early terrestrial biotas , 1993 , pp. 377 - 382
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1993

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Andrews, S. M., Browne, M. A. E., Panchen, A. L. & Wood, S. P. 1977. Discovery of amphibians in the Namurian (Upper Carboniferous) from Fife. NATURE 265, 529–32.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Bendix-Almgreen, S. E., Clack, J. A. & Olsen, H. 1988. Upper Devonian and Upper Permian vertebrates collected in 1987 around Kejser Franz Joseph Fjord, central East Greenland. RAPP GRØNLAND GEOL UNDERS 140, 95–102.Google Scholar
Berman, D. S., Reisz, R. R. & Eberth, D. A. 1987. Seymouria sanjuananensis (Amphibia, Batrachosauria) from the Lower Permian Cutler Formation of north-central New Mexico and the occurance of sexual dimorphism in that genus questioned. CAN J EARTH SCI 24, 1769–84.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Bolt, J. R. 1991. Lissamphibian origins. In Schultze, H.-P. & Trueb, L. (Eds) Origins of the higher groups of tetrapods: controversy and consensus 194–222. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.Google Scholar
Bolt, J. R., McKay, R. M., Witzke, B. J. & McAdams, M. P. 1988. A new Lower Carboniferous tetrapod locality in Iowa. NATURE 333, 768–70.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Boy, J. A. & Bandel, K. 1973. Bruktererpeton fiebigi n. gen. n. sp. (Amphibia: Gephyrostegida) der erste Tetrapode aus dem Rheinisch-Westfalischen Karbon (Namur B; W.-Deutschland). PALAEONTOGRAPHICA, 145A, 29–77.Google Scholar
Carroll, R. L. 1970. The ancestry of reptiles. PHILOS TRANS R SOC LONDON B257, 267–308.Google Scholar
Carroll, R. L. 1988. Vertebrate paleontology and evolution. New York: Freeman.Google Scholar
Carroll, R. L. & Gaskill, P. 1978. The Order Microsauria. MEM AM PHILOS SOC 126, 1–211.Google Scholar
Clack, J. A. 1987. Pholiderpeton scutigerum Huxley, an amphibian from the Yorkshire Coal Measures. PHILOS TRANS R SOC LONDON B318, 1–107.Google Scholar
Clack, J. A. 1994. Silvanerpeton miripedes, a new anthracosauroid from the Viséan of East Kirkton, West Lothian, Scotland. TRANS R SOC EDINBURGH: EARTH SCI 84, 367–376.Google Scholar
Gardiner, B. G. 1982. Tetrapod classification. ZOOL J LINN SOC 74, 207–32.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Holmes, R. 1980. Proterogyrinus scheelei and the early evolution of the labyrinthodont pectoral girdle. In Panchen, A. L. (Ed.) The terrestrial environment and the origin of land vertebrates, 351–76. London: Academic Press.Google Scholar
Holmes, R. 1984. The Carboniferous amphibian Proterogyrinus scheelei Romer and the early evolution of tetrapods. PHILOS TRANS R SOC LONDON B306, 431–527.Google Scholar
Jarvik, E. 1980. Basic structure and evolution of vertebrates, 1, London: Academic Press.Google Scholar
Lebedev, O. A. 1984. The first find of a Devonian tetrapod in USSR. DOKL AKAD NAUK SSSR 278, 1470–3. [In Russian.]Google Scholar
Milner, A. R. 1988. The relationships and origin of living amphibians. In Benton, M. J. (Ed.) The phytogeny and classification of the tetrapods. Vol. 1: Amphibians, Reptiles, Birds, 59–102. Oxford: Oxford University Press.Google Scholar
Milner, A. R. & Sequeira, S. 1994. The temnospondyl amphibians from the Viséan of East Kirkton, West Lothian, Scotland. TRANS R SOC EDINBURGH: EARTH SCI 84, 331–361.Google Scholar
Milner, A. R., Smithson, T. R., Milner, A. C., Coates, M. I. & Rolfe, W. D. I. 1986. The search for early tetrapods. MOD GEOL 10, 1–28.Google Scholar
Panchen, A. L. 1980. The origins and relationships of the anthracosaur Amphibia from the late Palaeozoic. In Panchen, A. L. (Ed.) The terrestrial environment and the origin of land vertebrates, 319–50. London: Academic Press.Google Scholar
Panchen, A. L. 1985. On the amphibian Crassigyrinus scoticus Watson from the Carboniferous of Scotland, PHILOS TRANS R SOC LONDON B309, 505–68.Google Scholar
Panchen, A. L. & Smithson, T. R. 1988. The relationships of the earliest tetrapods. In Benton, M. J. (Ed.) The phylogeny and classification of the tetrapods. Vol. 1. Amphibians, Reptiles, Birds, 1–32. Oxford: Oxford University Press.Google Scholar
Rolfe, W. D. I., Durant, G. P., Fallick, A. E., Hall, A. J., Large, D. J., Scott, A. C., Smithson, T. R. & Walkden, G. M. 1990. An early terrestrial biota preserved by Viséan vulcanicity in Scotland. In Lockley, M. G. & Rice, A. (Eds) Volcanism and fossil biotas, 13–24. GEOL SOC AM SPEC PAP 244.Google Scholar
Rolfe, W. D. I., Durant, G. P., Baird, W. J., Chaplin, C., Paton, R. L. & Reekie, R. J., 1994. The East Kirkton Limestone, Viséan, of West Lothian, Scotland: introduction and stratigraphy. TRANS R SOC EDINBURGH: EARTH SCI 84, 177–188.Google Scholar
Romer, A. S. 1945. Vertebrate paleontology, 2nd edn. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.Google Scholar
Romer, A. S. 1947. Review of the Labyrinthodontia. BULL MUS COMP ZOOL HARV 99, 1–368.Google Scholar
Romer, A. S. 1957. The appendicular skeleton of the Permian embolomerous amphibian Archeria. CONTR MUS GEOL UNIV MICH 13, 103–59.Google Scholar
Romer, A. S. 1966. Vertebrate Paleontology, 3rd edn. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.Google Scholar
Sἄve Sὄderbergh, G. 1934. Some points of view concerning the evolution of vertebrates and the classification of this group. ARKIV ZOOL 26A, 1–20.Google Scholar
Smithson, T. R. 1982. The cranial morphology of Greererpeton burkemorani Romer (Amphibia: Temnospondyli). ZOOL J LINN SOC 76, 29–90.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Smithson, T. R. 1985. The morphology and relationships of the Carboniferous amphibian Eoherpeton watsoni Panchen. ZOOL J LINN SOC 85, 317–410.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Smithson, T. R., Carroll, R. L., Panchen, A. L. & Andrews, S. M. 1994. Westlothiana lizziae from the Viséan of East Kirkton, West Lothian, Scotland and the amniote stem. TRANS R SOC EDINBURGH: EARTH SCI 84, 383–412.Google Scholar
Trueb, L. & Cloutier, R. 1991. A phylogenetic investigation of the inter- and intrarelationships of the Lissamphibia (Amphibia: Temnospondyli). In Schultze, H.-P. & Trueb, L. (Eds) Origins of the higher groups of tetrapods: controversy and consensus, 223–313. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.Google Scholar
White, T. E. 1939. Osteology of Seymouria baylorensis Broili. BULL MUS COMP ZOOL HARVARD 85, 323–410.Google Scholar
Wood, S. P., Panchen, A. L. & Smithson, T. R. 1985. A terrestrial fauna from the Scottish Lower Carboniferous. NATURE 314, 355–6.CrossRefGoogle Scholar