''Carbonodraco'' is an

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acleistorhinid Acleistorhinidae is an extinct family of Late Carboniferous and Early Permian-aged ( Moscovian to Kungurian stage) parareptiles. Acleistorhinids are most diverse from the Richards Spur locality of the Early Permian of Oklahoma. Richards Spur acle ...

parareptile Parareptilia ("at the side of reptiles") is a subclass or clade of basal sauropsids (reptiles), typically considered the sister taxon to Eureptilia (the group that likely contains all living reptiles and birds). Parareptiles first arose near the ...

known from the

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Ohio Ohio () is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. Of the fifty U.S. states, it is the 34th-largest by area, and with a population of nearly 11.8 million, is the seventh-most populous and tenth-most densely populated. The sta ...

. It contains a single species, ''Carbonodraco lundi''. It was closely related to ''

Colobomycter ''Colobomycter'' is an extinct genus of lanthanosuchoid parareptile known from the Early Permian of Oklahoma. Discovery The type species, ''Colobomycter pholeter'', was first described from fossil remains in 1958, at which time it was beli ...

'', a parareptile from the

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Oklahoma Oklahoma (; Choctaw language, Choctaw: ; chr, ᎣᎧᎳᎰᎹ, ''Okalahoma'' ) is a U.S. state, state in the South Central United States, South Central region of the United States, bordered by Texas on the south and west, Kansas on the nor ...

. ''Carbonodraco'' is the oldest known parareptile, and is slightly older than ''

Erpetonyx ''Erpetonyx'' is an extinct genus of bolosaurian parareptile from the Gzhelian stage of the Carboniferous period, with a single known species: ''Erpetonyx arsenaultorum''. It is known from a single articulated and mostly complete specimen from P ...

'', the previously oldest known parareptile. Specimens of ''Carbonodraco'' are limited to skull and jaw fragments found at the Ohio Diamond Coal mine in Linton, Ohio. These include the

holotype A holotype is a single physical example (or illustration) of an organism, known to have been used when the species (or lower-ranked taxon) was formally described. It is either the single such physical example (or illustration) or one of several ...

specimen (CM 23055, a crushed skull) and two referred specimens (NHMUK R. 2667, a right jaw; CM 81536, a pair of dentaries). Several of the ''Carbonodraco'' specimens were previously referred to the Carboniferous

eureptile Eureptilia ("true reptiles") is one of the two major subgroups of the clade Sauropsida, the other one being Parareptilia. Eureptilia includes Diapsida (the clade containing all modern reptiles and birds), as well as a number of primitive Permo ...

Cephalerpeton ''Cephalerpeton'' is an extinct genus of " protorothyridid" eureptile known from the Late Carboniferous (late Westphalian stage) of Illinois. It is known from the holotype YPM 796, a partial skeleton. It was collected in the Mazon Creek s ...

'' by Reisz & Baird (1983). They were recognized as a distinct species in a 2019 study by Mann ''et al''.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q96374439 Carboniferous reptiles of North America Procolophonomorphs Fossil taxa described in 2019 Prehistoric reptile genera