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
Measurements of the Type Skull of Diceratosaurus lævis Moodie.
mm.
Length of skull along median suture 37
Length from muzzle to tip of horn 50
Width between tips of horns, estimated 40
Width of orbit 7
Length of orbit 10
Width of skull across the orbits 30
Interorbital width 6
Length of nostril opening 2
Width of nostril 1
Diameter of the pineal foramen - 1
=Diceratosaurus robustus Moodie.=
Moodie, Jour. Geol., XVII, No. 1, p. 67, fig. 15, 1909.
Moodie, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., XXVI, art. XXV, p. 355, pl. lxiii,
fig. 2, 1909.
Type: Specimen No. 8611 G, American Museum of Natural History.
Horizon and locality: Linton, Ohio, Coal Measures.
The present species is indicated by the left portion of a cranium
representing a large individual. The characters of the skull are so
clearly marked that it seems worthy of description. The presence of horns
as given in the restoration of the skull (fig. 24, B) is based on the
analogy with the other two species of this genus, in both of which horns
are present. The generic determination of the species is based on the
large size of the postorbital, which is essentially characteristic of the
other species of _Diceratosaurus_.
The characters which distinguish the species from others of the genus are
the large postorbitals and the small parietals, which are excluded from
union with the postfrontals on account of the large size of the frontal.
In the other two known species the frontal is small and the parietal comes
forward to join the postfrontal. The present species exhibits a skull
which is nearly twice as large as that of _D. lævis_ and nearly three
times the size of the skull of _D. punctolineatus_.
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