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 interclavicle is diamond-Shaped, with surface punctate and edges
radiately grooved at a distance of 1.5 mm. from the edge. The hand on the
right side of the specimen contains 3, 3, 3, 6, 3 phalanges. The vertebræ
are all imperfectly preserved.
Other specimens of this species are 2567 (48), 8376 G, 8704 G, American
Museum of Natural History. Coal Measures of Linton, Ohio. Collected by Dr.
J. S. Newberry.
=Sauropleura newberryi Cope.=
Cope, Geol. Surv. Ohio, II, pt. II, p. 404, pl. xxxvii, figs. 2 and 3;
pl. xli, fig. 5, 1875.
Type: Specimen No. 8612 G, American Museum of Natural History.
Horizon and locality: Linton, Ohio, Coal Measures.
The type specimen of the species exhibits a portion of the posterior
part of the skull, a considerable part of the body, with the fore limbs
and abdominal scutellæ. No vertebræ can be definitely discovered and
the ribs are not distinctly visible. The cranial fragment is the upper
surface of the tabulare and adjacent elements, and a broad band of the
posterior parts of these is seen to be smooth, and is preceded by a
slightly roughened surface. The abdominal scutæ are diamond-shaped, and
are thin and light, not massive, as in _S. scutellata_, and are sometimes
marked with a median longitudinal keel. The fore limb is large, especially
the humerus, which is much dilated distally, and has a strong crest
on the outer side from near the proximal end. The ulna and radius are
much shorter, and more dilated proximally than distally; they are well
separated. No phalanges are preserved.
The species is represented by other specimens, all of which are
unsatisfactory in determining the structure of the form. A skull,
apparently complete, is crushed out flat, so that little can be said of
structure. The teeth are rather long, straight, acute, and striate at the
base. The orbits are long and narrowed in front.
Measurements of Sauropleura newberryi Cope.
(No. 8612 G, and two unnumbered specimens, American Museum of Natural
History.)
mm.
Length of humerus 35
Proximal width of humerus 8
Distal width of humerus 14
Length of ulna 19
Proximal width of ulna 8
Posterior width of skull 67
Width at anterior angle of orbits 40
Interorbital space 13
Width of orbit 13
Length of orbit 27
Length of a maxillary tooth 4
Diameter of same at base 2
=Sauropleura pauciradiata Cope.=
Cope, Trans. Am. Phil. Soc., XV, p. 275, 1874.
Cope, Geol. Surv. Ohio, II, pt. II, p. 408, pl. xl, figs. 1-2, 1875.
Type: Specimen No. 8671 G, and obverse, American Museum of Natural History.
Horizon and locality: Linton, Ohio, Coal Measures.
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