#hylonomus

[earlypalaeoart]

"The home of the early air-breathers: A Carboniferous Forest with ancient Amphibians (Labyrinthodonts). In the water Baphetes; on land Dendrerpeton, Hylonomus, and Hylerpeton."

From Winners in life's race, or, The great backboned family by Arabella B. Buckley, 1882

After Dawson, 1863

https://archive.org/details/winnersinlifesra00buckiala/

[bobnichollsart]

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

In 2013 I built 23 scale and life-size models for MUSE Science Museum, in Trento, Italy. Here's an enlarged Hylonomus, a reptile that lived about 318 million years ago (Carboniferous).

[chaobunnyarts]

31 days of pastel paleo critters (1-8)!

Hylonomus

Archaeopteryx

Archelon

Hesperornis

Titanoboa

Meganeura

Basilosaurus

Sinosauropteryx

[mineralsrocksandfossiltalks]

Throwback Thursday:Hylonomus lyelli

This is Hylonomus lyelli. It doesn't look like much but it was a pretty big deal when it was first discovered. It was discovered by Sir John William Dawson, a student of Sir Charles Lyell whom he named this little reptile after.

He was actually studying fossil trees when he discovered Hylonomus. Typical, looking for one thing and you find something else. Welcome to science.

Hylonomus is the oldest undisputed reptile. It was found in Late Pennsylvanian (Carboniferous) rocks in Nova Scotia. Despite this, it's actually not a very basal reptile. It's actually fairly derived being part of eureptilia (the group which all living reptiles are part of).

Hylonomus was not a very big animal at only 10 in max. It probably looked much like a modern lizard, filling a similar niche as an insect eater.

Their fossils have been found in club moss stumps of the Joggins Formation. This formation preserves a tropical riparian (riverside) forest that periodically flooded.

Now that you know more about the oldest reptile found, tune in tomorrow to learn about its cousin, Paleothryis. Fossilize you later!

[antiqueanimals]

Prehistoric life : the rise of the vertebrates, David Norman, 1994. Illustrated by John Sibbick.

[extinctworld-ua]

Hylonomus

Гілоном (лат. Hylonomus, від др.-грец. ὑλονόμος «той, що мешкає в лісах, лісовий») – вимерлий тетрапод кам’яновугільного періоду. Це найраніша справжня рептилія (Westlothiana старша, але в неї спірна систематика, а інший тетрапод, Casineria, відомий за досить фрагментарними залишками). Єдиним видом є типовий вид Hylonomus lyelli.

Повний текст на сайті "Вимерлий світ":

https://extinctworld.in.ua/hylonomus/

[horrible-lizards]

Hylonomus, 1888

[earlypalaeoart]

"Reptiles of the Coal Period: restorations of Baphetes, Dendrerpeton, Hylonomus, and Hylerpeton"

Frontispiece for John William Dawson's Air-breathers of the Coal Period: a descriptive account of the remains of land animals found in the coal formation of Nova Scotia with remarks on their bearing on theories of the formation of coal and of the origin of the species (1863)

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/167425

Reprinted in his book The Story of the Earth and Man, 1873

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/42741/42741-h/42741-h.htm