THE KANSAS UNIVERSITY 

 SCIENCE BULLETIN. 



Vol. V, No. .3.] MARCH, 1910. [vorxv.'™! 



THE TEMNOSPONDYLOUS AMPHIBIA AND A NEW 

 SPECIES OF ERYOPS FROM THE PERMIAN . 

 OF OKLAHOMA. 



BY ROY L. MOODIE. 



(Contribution from the Zoological Laboratory, No. 189.) 



Plates XLIX to LIV. 



OUR knowledge of the fossil Amphibia begins with Dr. J. J. 

 Scheuczer's discovery of two skeletons in the Miocene of 

 Oeningen, which he referred to as "Homo diluvii testis 

 et Theoskopos," and which later Hermann von Meyer desig- 

 nated "Andrias scheuczeri," thus keeping the same idea in the 

 generic name as Scheuczer had expressed in his letters and 

 descriptions. The discovery was made about 1725, so far as I 

 can ascertain. His letter to Sir Hans Sloane in 1726, which 

 was translated in the republished volume of the early trans- 

 actions of the Royal Society of London, is the first definite 

 mention I find of this discovery in the literature which is ac- 

 cessible to me. 



Exactly one hundred years elapsed from the time of Scheuc- 

 zer's discovery of the giant salamander skeletons to the time 

 when Dr. Georg Friedrick Jaeger discovered in the Triassic of 

 Germany some labyrinthodont remains which he figured and 

 described in his folio published in 1824 at Stuttgart with the 

 title "De Ichthyosauri sive Proteosauri Fossilis Specimenibus 

 in Agro Bollensi in Wurtembergia." He figured the occipital 

 portion of the skull and teeth of what he, in 1828, called "Mas- 

 todonsaurus." In 1833 Doctor Jaeger pointed out the syn- 

 onymy of Salamandroides with Mastodonsaurus. Previous to 



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