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
No. 802 (471) Yale University Museum: mm.
Length of animal 30
Length of skull 4
Posterior width of skull 5
Length of œsophagus 3.5
Length of stomach 6
Width of stomach 1.33
Estimated length of intestine 18
Width across base of tail impression 2.5
Length of tail from base to tip 7
No. 4400, U. S. National Museum: mm.
Length of entire animal 45
Length of skull 6
Width of skull 9
Transverse diameter of orbit 1.50
Long diameter of orbit 2.25
Interorbital space 2.50
Diameter of pineal foramen 50
Length of body from back of skull to pelvis 22
Greatest width of body 9
Length of tail 16
Width of tail at base 5
Length of humerus 3
Length of femur 2.50
Length of tibia (fibula?) 1.75
Length of stomach 3
Length of intestine (estimated) 5.6
Width of intestine 1
[Illustration: MOODIE PLATE 4
1 and 2. Vertebræ of _Spondylerpeton spinatum_ Moodie. × 1.
3. Type specimen of _Mazonerpeton costatum_ Moodie. × 1.
4. Type skeleton of Cephalerpeton ventriarmatum Moodie. × 0.9.
5 and 6. The halves of the nodule containing a practically complete
skeleton of Amphibians grandiceps Cope. × 1.
Originals of above figures in the Yale University Museum.
]
=Genus MAZONERPETON Moodie.=
Moodie, Kans. Univ. Sci. Bull., vol. VI, No. 2, p. 336, 1912.
Type: _M. longicaudatum_ Moodie.
The genus is distinguished from other known branchiosaurian genera by
the great length of the dorsal region, the elongate tail (plate 5, fig.
2), with its well-developed caudal ribs, the reduction of the tympanic
notch, the broad nature of the scapula, the elongate interclavicle, and
the slender ilium. The number of dorsal vertebræ is identical with that of
_Branchiosaurus_ of Saxony.
=Mazonerpeton longicaudatum Moodie.=
Kans. Univ. Sci. Bull., VI, No. 2, p. 337, pl. 3, figs. 1-2; pl. 7,
fig. 3; pl. 10. 1912.
Type: Specimen No. 795 (1234), Yale University Museum.
Horizon and locality: Mazon Creek shales, near Morris, Illinois. (Plate 3,
figs. 5 and 6.)
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