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AMPHIBIA 



CLASS II 



Anthracosaurus, 



Huxley. Skull broadly triangular, 36 cm. long, externally 

 pitted. Orbits very small, situated in hinder 

 third of the skull. Teeth externally furrowed, 

 of nearly uniform size. Vomer toothless, 

 palatines with a large tooth, and several of 

 smaller size. Dermal scales externally con- 

 vex, sharpened at the ends. Coal Measures ; 

 Northumberland. A. russelli, Huxley. 



Loxomma, Huxley (Figs. 199, 221). Like 

 the preceding, but orbits very large, irregu- 

 larly oval, and teeth of unequal size. Coal 

 Measures ; Northumberland and Bohemia. 



Eosaurus, Marsh. Known only by a few 

 detached amphicoelous vertebrae. Coal 



Cross-section of tooth of Loxomma allmani, -»«- -v T a ,• 



Huxley, near the base. Enlarged. Coal Measures \ JN OVa bcotia. 



Macromerion, Fritsch. Imperfectly known. 

 Permian ; Bohemia. 



Fig. 221. 



and Abbey). 



fringed 

 enlarged 



Family 2. Labyrinthodontidae. (Eiujlypta, Miall.) 



Ventral armouring and sclerotic ring absent. Pectoral plates large, coarsely 

 sculptured. Infolding s of the dentine completely labyrintliodont. A few excessively 

 developed teeth present on the palatines, and sometimes on the vomer and symphysis of 

 lower jaw. Trias. 



Trematosaurus, Braun (Fig. 222). Skull elongated triangular, about 25 

 cm. long, with orbits near the middle. Teeth present on jaw-bones, palatines, 

 and vomer, and inner border of posterior nares 

 with small denticles. A pair of greatly 

 teeth present on symphysis of lower 

 jaw, and behind these a supplementary row of 

 small teeth. Two large vomerine tusks in advance 

 of the posterior nares, and three or four palatine 

 ones behind the same. Interclavicle rhomboid, 

 with posterior pedicle. Abundant in the Bunt- 

 sandstein of Bernburg. T. brauni, Burm. 



Metopias, v. Meyer (Metoposaurus, Lydekker), 

 (Fig. 223). Skull large, broadly triangular, with 

 elliptical orbits in anterior half, and large narial 

 openings Nasals shorter than frontals and 

 parietals. Pectoral plates very large. Ribs very 

 powerful, distally expanded. Dentition weak, 

 teeth strongly fluted externally, especially at the 

 base, with but slight internal foldings. Teeth 

 apparently arranged like those of Capitosaurus. 

 Keuper ; Wurtemberg. 



(Figs. 224, 227). Skull 

 Orbits small, behind the 

 frontals or larger. A small auditory notch adjacent 

 One or two powerful tusks present on vomer in 



Fig. 222. 



Skull of Trematosaurus brauni, Bur 

 nieist. Buntsandstein 

 !/ 4 (after Burmeister). 



Bernburg. 



with muzzle often broad 

 middle of skull. Nasals 



Capitosaurus, Munst. 

 and obtusely rounded, 

 of equal size with the 

 to the so-called epiotic. 

 front of the internal nares and on palatines behind the same. Between the 



