They were also home to amphibians and early reptiles.
Later the seas were largely replaced by swamps, home to amphibians and early reptiles.
However, evidence indicates that during the late Carboniferous the state was home to marine life, land plants and early reptiles.
Classification is uncertain, but it was possibly an early reptile or an amphibian close to the diadectomorphs.
True, but if the skin were smooth you'd have nothing more than an early reptile.
They argue that birds evolved from some earlier, yet undiscovered, reptile.
Tasmaniosaurus is one of the earliest reptiles known to have lived in Australia.
The lagerstätte is about 300 million years old and contains some of the earliest reptiles on earth.
The general build was heavy in all forms, though otherwise very similar to that of early reptiles.
Mammals, as well as dinosaurs, evolved more than 220 million years ago from earlier mammal-like reptiles.