Westlothiana

Westlothiana
Temporal range: Viséan,
Type specimen of Westlothiana lizziae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Tetrapoda
Clade: Reptiliomorpha (?)
Genus: †Westlothiana
Smithson and Rolfe, 1990
Type species
†Westlothiana lizziae
Smithson and Rolfe, 1990

Westlothiana ("animal from West Lothian") is a genus of reptile-like tetrapods that lived about 341 million years ago during the latest part of the Viséan age of the Carboniferous. The genus is known from a single species, Westlothiana lizziae. It is the oldest known uncontroversial tetrapod, closely related to but not an amniote.

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