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
Labyrinthodontia.
Section I. Euglypta.
Genera: _Mastodonsaurus_, Jaeger; _Capitosaurus_, Münst.; _Pachygonia_,
Huxley; _Trematosaurus_, Braun; _Gonioglyptus_, Huxley; _Metopias_,
von Meyer; _Labyrinthodon_, Owen; _Diadetognathus_, Miall;
_Dasyceps_, Huxley; _Anthracosaurus_, Huxley.
Section II. Brachyopina.
Genera: _Brachyops_, Owen; _Micropholis_, Huxley; _Rhinosaurus_,
Waldheim; _Bothriceps_, Huxley.
Section III. Chauliodonta.
Genera: _Loxomma_, Huxley; _Zygosaurus_, Eich.; _Melosaurus_, Meyer.
Section IV. Arthroödonta.
Genera: _Batrachiderpeton_, Hancock and Atthey; _Pteroplax_, Hancock
and Atthey.
Section V. An uncharacterized group.
Genera: _Pholidogaster_, Huxley; _Ichthyerpeton_, Huxley;
_Pholiderpeton_, Huxley.
Section VI. Archegosauria, von Meyer.
Genera: _Archegosaurus_, Goldfuss.
Section VII. Heleothrepta.
Genera: _Lepterpeton_, Huxley.
Section VIII. Nectridea.
Genera: _Urocordylus_, Huxley; _Keraterpeton_, Huxley.
Section IX. Aistopoda.
Genera: _Ophiderpeton_, Huxley; _Dolichosoma_, Huxley.
Section X. Microsauria, Dawson.
Genera: _Dendrerpeton_, Owen; _Hylonomus_, Dawson; _Hylerpeton_, Owen.
The schemes of classification used for the next 10 years did not depart in
any appreciable degree from those already given.
In 1875 Cope, in his Check-list of North American Batrachia and
Reptilia (120), with a systematic list of the higher groups, published
the following classification as being "adopted provisionally by the
Smithsonian Institution":
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