The Coal Measures Amphibia of North AmericaMoodie, Roy Lee
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The Coal Measures Amphibia of North America
Moodie, Roy Lee
Amphibians, Fossil -- North America; Paleontology -- Carboniferous; Paleontology -- North America
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Median length of the skull 56
Width across tips of horns 46
Width at base of horns 40
Width across orbits 44
Diameter of the orbit 8
Length of the orbit 15
Interorbital space 16
Length of the nostril 2
Diameter of the pineal foramen 1
Length of the teeth 1.5
Length of the horn from base 7.5
Width of horn at base 4
[Illustration: MOODIE PLATE 15
1. Dorsum of skull of Diceratosaurus punctolineatus (Cope), from the
Coal Measures of Linton. Ohio. Original in the Museum at Berlin
University. × 2. After Jaekel. _po_=postorbital: _fr_= frontal;
_pof_=postfrontal; _j_=jugal; _la_=lacrimal; _mx_ = maxilla;
_ps_="perisquamosal;" _pp_=post-parietal; _pmx_= premaxilla.
2. Ventral surface of the skull of _Diceratosaurus punctolineatus_
(Cope ), from the Coal Measures of Linton, Ohio. × 2. After
Jaekel. _a_=anterior palatine vacuity; _ex_=exoccipital;
_j_=jugal; _mx_=maxilla; _tr_=transverse; _pal_=palatine;
_pt_=pterygoid; _pr_=prevomer; _ps_="perisquamosal;"
_pv_=posterior or suborbital palatine vacuity; _ph_=parasphenoid.
3. Pectoral girdle of _Diceratosaurus punctolineatus_ (Cope),
from the Coal Measures of Linton, Ohio. Original in the
paleontological Museum at Berlin. × 2. After Jaekel. _cli_=inner
side of clavicle; _ic_=interclavicle; _cl_=clavicle (lower side);
_cle_=cleithrum.
4. (e) Cervical or anterior dorsal vertebra of _Diceratosaurus
punctolineatus_ (Cope), from the Linton, Ohio, Coal Measures.
_cv_=caudal vertebra shown with its cap of dermal bone;
_dv_=dorsal vertebra with ribs; _x_=dermal plate on neural spine;
_h_=humerus; _u_=ulna; _r_=radius.
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CHAPTER XVI.
THE MICROSAURIAN FAMILY UROCORDYLIDÆ, FROM THE COAL MEASURES OF OHIO.
=Family UROCORDYLIDÆ Lydekker, 1890.=
Lydekker, Cat. Fossil Reptilia and Amphibia, pt. IV, p. 196, 1890.
Moodie, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., XXVI, art. XXV, p. 357, 1909.
Type of the family: _Urocordylus wandesfordii_ Huxley.
Locality and horizon: Coal Measures of Kilkenny, Ireland.
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