Reptilia - Eureptilia - Protorothyrididae

Full reference: J. W. Dawson. 1860. On a Terrestrial Mollusk, a Chilognathous Myriapod, and some New Species of Reptiles, from the Coal-Formation of Nova Scotia. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 16:268-277

Belongs to Hylonomus according to R. L. Moodie 1916

See also Dawson 1860 and Hay 1902

Sister taxa: Hylonomus acuminatus, Hylonomus latidens, Hylonomus lyelli

Type specimen: RM 3061, a set of vertebrae. Its type locality is Coal Mine Point; Divison 4, Section XV, coal-group 15, which is in a Westphalian A mire/swamp sandstone/coal in the Joggins Formation of Canada.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Coal Mine Point; Divison 4, Section XV, coal-group 15

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