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
species is of interest because it represents an additional discovery of
the scaled Amphibia in North America. The species previously known from
the Linton, Ohio, deposits is _Cercariomorphus parvisquamis_ Cope. Dermal
scales have also been observed in specimens of _Amphibamus grandiceps_
Cope and _Micrerpeton caudatum_ Moodie (462, 478) from the Mazon Creek,
Illinois, beds, and Sir William Dawson (208) described scales accompanying
several forms from the Joggins deposits of western Nova Scotia.
[Illustration: MOODIE PLATE 21
1. Mandible of _Micrerpeton deani_ Moodie, from the Linton. Ohio,
Coal Measures. Original in American Museum of Natural History,
No. 2934. × 0.6.
2. Portion of the skull of _Micrerpeton deani_ Moodie, possibly of
the same individual as the mandible. From the Linton, Ohio, Coal
Measures. Original in American Museum of Natural History, No.
3535 G. × 0.4.
3. Type of _Cercariomorphus parvisquamis_ Cope, from the Linton,
Ohio, Coal Measures. Original in American Museum of Natural
History. × 1.
4. An additional specimen of _Cercariomorphus parvisquamis_ Cope,
from the Linton, Ohio, Coal Measures. Original in American Museum
of Natural History. × 1.
5. Skull of _Sauropleura scutellata_ Newberry. From the Coal
Measures of Ohio. × 1.
6. Tooth of _Mastodonsaurus_ sp. indet. of the Carboniferous of
Kansas. Original in University of Kansas Museum. × 1.
7. Tooth of _Mastodonsaurus giganteus_ Jaeger, from the Triassic of
Germany. Introduced for comparison with the tooth from the Kansas
Carboniferous. × 1.
]
Measurements of the Types of Ichthyerpeton squamosum Moodie.
Length of animal as estimated from two impressions 3 ft.
Length of longest impression 21 in.
Length of specimen containing tail impression 9 in.
Width of tail impression: Maximum 50 mm.
Minimum 6 mm.
Width of a single scale 1 mm.
Distance from base of tail to tip 125 mm.
Length of specimen as preserved 225 mm.
Width of chevron rod space 30 mm.
Length of rib 25 mm.
8 chevrons in a distance of 3 mm.
=Genus CERCARIOMORPHUS Cope.=
Cope, Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc., 1885, p. 405.
Type: _Cercariomorphus parvisquamis_ Cope.
The type specimen of this genus is supplemented by a portion of the body
of another specimen which adds a little to our knowledge of the animal's
form, but nothing as to structure. Cope's original description is as
follows:
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