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Cryptovaranoides was recovered in the study as a crown-group anguimorph, and therefore the oldest crown group-squamate, 35 million years older than any previously known crown-group squamate. [3] However, a 2023 study found that Cryptovaranoides most likely represents an archosauromorph that was only distantly related to squamates.
Hylonomus (/ h aɪ ˈ l ɒ n əm ə s /; hylo-"forest" + nomos "dweller") [2] is an extinct genus of reptile that lived during the Bashkirian stage of the Late Carboniferous.It is the earliest known crown group amniote and the oldest known unquestionable reptile, with the only known species being Hylonomus lyelli.
The oldest known individual(s) that are currently alive, with verified ages. ... The tuatara, a lizard-like reptile native to New Zealand, can live well over 100 years.
It has been suggested to be one of the oldest known lizards and the oldest known iguanian. [1] The type and only species is Bharatagama rebbanensis, named in 2002. Over one hundred fossils of Bharatagama have been found in the Kota Formation, which outcrops in the Pranhita–Godavari Basin and dates back to about 190 million years ago (Ma).
These slender predators are known mostly from bones that are less than 270 million years old, but the recent fossil find is thought to be an unprecedented 280 million to 270 million years old.
The tracks are attributed to Hylonomus, the oldest unquestionable reptile known. [7] It was a small, lizard-like animal, about 20 to 30 cm (8–12 in) long, with numerous sharp teeth indicating an insectivorous diet. [8]
Archosaurus (meaning "ruling lizard") is an extinct genus of carnivorous proterosuchid archosauriform reptile. [1] Its fossils are dated to the latest Permian of Russia and Poland, it is one of the earliest known archosauriforms.
The earliest rhynchocephalian, Wirtembergia, is known from the Middle Triassic of Germany, around 240 million years ago. [32] During the Late Triassic , rhynchocephalians greatly diversified, [ 13 ] going on to become the world's dominant group of small reptiles during the Jurassic period, [ 33 ] when the group was represented by a diversity of ...