{"id":3732,"date":"2015-01-13T21:22:02","date_gmt":"2015-01-14T02:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=3732"},"modified":"2015-01-17T11:04:26","modified_gmt":"2015-01-17T16:04:26","slug":"fossil-discovered-by-young-boy-in-pei-shines-light-on-the-origin-of-turtles-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/fossil-discovered-by-young-boy-in-pei-shines-light-on-the-origin-of-turtles-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Fossil discovered by young boy in PEI shines light on the origin of turtles<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3766\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/parareptile.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3766\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3766\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/parareptile-300x169.jpeg\" alt=\"Photograph of the new reptile\u2019s fossil that was found by a young boy on Prince Edward Island, Canada. (Credit: Modesto et al.)\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/parareptile-300x169.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/parareptile-1024x577.jpeg 1024w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/parareptile.jpeg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3766\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph of the new reptile\u2019s fossil that was found by a young boy on Prince Edward Island, Canada. (Credit: Modesto et al.)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Researchers have discovered a new genus and species of reptile from a 300-million-year-old fossil from Prince Edward Island. The fossil was found in PEI by a young boy and its family, and the species was named in his family\u2019s honour, Erpetonyx arsenaultorum.<\/p>\n<p>This discovery indicates that reptiles at the end of this era were more diverse than suggested by previous data.<\/p>\n<p>This fossil is one of the most complete reptile fossil of the Carboniferous era and is the closest and oldest relative ever found of an enigmatic group of early reptiles that have been implicated in the origin of turtles, called bolosaurid parareptiles.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org\/content\/282\/1801\/20141912\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research paper<\/span><\/a>\u00a0published in <em>Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences\u00a0<\/em>on\u00a0<strong>January\u00a013<\/strong><span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_453723367\"><span class=\"aQJ\"><strong>, 2014<\/strong>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h4>Sean Modesto, Cape Breton University, New Brunswick<br \/>\nRobert Reisz, University of Toronto at Mississauga, Ontario<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have discovered a new genus and species of reptile from a 300-million-year-old fossil from Prince Edward Island. The fossil was found in PEI by a young boy and its family, and the species was named in his family\u2019s honour, Erpetonyx arsenaultorum. This discovery indicates that reptiles at the end of this era were more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3766,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[170,917,2259,50,2354],"class_list":["post-3732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-biodiversity","tag-evolution","tag-new-brunswick","tag-ontario","tag-reptile"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/parareptile.jpeg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-Yc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3732"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3770,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3732\/revisions\/3770"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}