Petrolacosaurus kansensis (meaning “rock lake lizard from Kansas”) was one of the first Diapsid reptiles. It lived in late Carboniferous Kansas, USA. Diapsida is the clade that includes all modern reptiles, and in a modern cladistic sense, birds.
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- Petrolacosaurus appeared in Walking with Monsters, where it is hunted by mesothelae spiders and Meganeura. In fact, no griffinflies have ever been found in the Upper Pennsylvanian of Kansas, and the spiders that lived there were small and likely became prey for tetrapods themselves.
- Petrolacosaurus appeared in The Good Dinosaur.
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