Diabloroter
Name:
Diabloroter
(Devil Wheel).
Phonetic: Di-ab-lo-ro-tor.
Named By: Arjan Mann & Hillary C.
Maddin - 2019.
Classification: Chordata, Lepospondyli,
Microsauria, Brachystelechidae.
Species: D. bolti (type).
Diet: Insectivore.
Size: Holotype individual 5.3 centimetres long.
Known locations: USA, Illinois.
Time period: Carboniferous.
Fossil representation: Partial skull and most of the
post cranial skeleton.
Diabloroter
is a genus of microsaur that lived in North America during the
Carboniferous period. A very small creature, Diabloroter
were
possibly hunters of small insects.
Further reading
- Diabloroter bolti, a short-bodied
recumbirostran ‘microsaur’
from the Francis Creek Shale, Mazon Creek, Illinois. -
Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 1-12. - Arjan Mann
& Hillary C. Maddin - 2019.
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