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
The portion of the skull preserved shows the cranium to have had a rather
acuminate snout, not blunt as in the type species. The orbit is an
elongate oval, although it has the same relative position in the skull
as in the other species. The nostril is indicated by an oval depression
near the anterior edge of the skull. The frontals, as indicated by the
sutures present on the portion of the skull which is preserved, are fully
as long as the parietals. Whether they were as wide as is represented is
uncertain. The postfrontals are very small bones, the sutures of which are
somewhat uncertain, although they can not be far from what is represented
(fig. 24, B). The postorbital is large and elongate, and is distinctive of
this species on account of its unusual size, although it does not attain
the same proportions as in other members of the genus. The parietals are
elongate and narrow. The pineal foramen is represented by its lateral
edge and its position is about midway of the longitudinal diameter of
the parietals. The narrow postparietal is represented by its anterior
border; as restored (fig. 24, B) it may be too long. The tabulare, also,
is represented by an anterior portion and it shows this element to have
the position and form which is typical of the form _Diceratosaurus lævis_.
Such other of the cranial elements as are indicated are based on the
relations discovered in _D. lævis_.
The heavy line on the left of the drawing (fig. 24, B) represents the
outline of the preserved portion. The skull, as restored, may be a little
too long, and the shape of the horns is conjectural. In the orbit there
are preserved 2 misplaced teeth showing longitudinal fluting. The longest
tooth is about 3 mm.
Measurements of the Type Skull of Diceratosaurus robustus Moodie.
mm.
Median length of skull, estimated 67
Posterior width of skull, estimated 78
Length of orbit 18
Width of orbit 12
Length of longest tooth 3
Width of same tooth at base 1.5
Length of postorbital 27
Width of postorbital 14
=Genus EOSERPETON Moodie, 1909.=
Moodie, Jour. Geol., XVII, pp. 76-79, fig. 20, 1909.
Moodie, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., XXVI, p. 355, pl. lxiii, fig. 1,
1909.
Type: _Eoserpeton tenuicorne_ Cope.
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