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
mm.
Length of the skull in median line 75
Width of skull at posterior border, estimated 80
Width of skull across orbits 60
Width of orbit 10.6
Length of orbit 12
Interorbital space 16
Length of jaw, as preserved 48
Width of jaw, maximum 16
Width of jaw, minimum 5
Length of largest tooth 11
Width of longest tooth at base 4.5
Length of shortest tooth 3
Width of shortest tooth at base 1
=Sauropleura foveata Cope.=
Cope, Trans. Am. Phil. Soc., XIV, p. 24, 1869.
Cope, Geol. Surv. Ohio, II, pt. II, p. 406, pl. xxxvi, fig. I, 1875.
Type: Specimen No. 8676 G and obverse No. 8675 G, American Museum of
Natural History.
Horizon and locality: Linton, Ohio, Coal Measures.
This species is represented by an interclavicle and its impression, which
show a beautiful sculpturing entirely distinct from that of the other
species of this genus. In size it is intermediate between the largest of
the interclavicles of _S. scutellata_ and _S. pauciradiata_. The pattern
of the sculpturing is, however, its main distinction. The plate is finely
pitted and there are few evidences of grooves. Near the posterior border
of the plate the pits become somewhat defined by ridges which take on a
radiating pattern with the center of the plate as the center. The beveled
margins are rugose, except at the edges.
Measurements of the Type Specimen of Sauropleura foveata Cope.
mm.
Median length of interclavicle 43
Width of interclavicle, maximum 23
=Sauropleura enchodus Cope.=
Cope, Proc. Am. Phil. Soc., p. 406, 1885 (_Anisodexis_).
Type: Specimen No. (51) 2558, American Museum of Natural History, Newberry
Collection.
Horizon and locality: Discovered by Sam Huston at the Linton, Ohio, Coal
Measures.
An examination of the type specimen (plate 16, fig. 4) of this form
resulted in no new facts. The reference of the species to the Permian
genus _Anisodexis_ by Cope is probably incorrect. Our knowledge of the
two known species of this genus is not sufficient to separate them, but
for the sake of convenience the Linton species is placed in the genus
_Sauropleura_. It is located here principally on account of the form and
structure of the teeth. Cope's original description is given below:
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