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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的大鼻龙目,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]。
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、Brouffia、Coelostegus,近年被发现是更原始的真爬行动物。
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- ↑ Llewellyn Ivor Price. Two new cotylosaurs from the Permian of Texas. Proceedings of the New England Zoölogical Club. 1937, 11: 97–102.
- ↑ Alfred Sherwood Romer. Late Pennsylvanian and Early Permian Vertebrates of the Pittsburgh-West Virginia Region. Annals of Carnegie Museum. 1952, 33: 47–113.
- ↑ R. L. Moodie. The Pennsylvanic Amphibia of the Mazon Creek, Illinois, Shales. Kansas University Science Bulletin. 1912, 6 (2): 232–259.
- ↑ 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.