The sharp-toothed specimen could show the much-earlier origins of the modern lizard.
, which means meaning “small butcher,” as a tribute to the animal’s jaws filled with sharp-edged slicing teeth.fossils in the storerooms of the Natural History Museum in London where I am a Scientific Associate,” said David Whiteside, from the University of Bristol’s School of Earth Sciences and a co-author of the paper,
. “This was a common enough fossil reptile, a close relative of the New Zealand Tuatara that is the only survivor of the group, the Rhynchocephalia, that split from the squamates over 240 million years ago.“Our specimen was simply labelled ‘and one other reptile.
. “We made X-ray scans of the fossils at the University, and this enabled us to reconstruct the fossil in three dimensions, and to see all the tiny bones that were hidden inside the rock.”that includes lizards and snakes, evolved, how quickly they evolved, and even what triggered the general origin of the order.
Adding in older modern squamates help complete this evolutionary picture as the Earth rebuilt after the , which killed about 95 percent of the Earth’s marine species and 70 percent of land species about 252 million years ago., reflects the hidden nature of the beast in a drawer but also in its likely lifestyle, living in cracks in the limestone on small islands that existed around Bristol at the time,” Sofia Chambi-Trowell, co-author and PhD research student at the University of Bristol said
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