THE KANSAS UNIVERSITY 

 SCIENCE BULLETIN. 



VOL. IX, No. 2.] DECEMBER, 1914. [^SKS" 



A List of the Described Species of Fossil 



Amphibia. 



ROY L. MOODIE. 

 Department of Anatomy, University of Illinois, Chicago. 



SOME of the species listed below may be regarded as rep- 

 tiles, but most of the species herewith given certainly be- 

 long to the amphibian phase of vertebrate development. My 

 excuse for publishing such a list is that no such list exists and 

 it will undoubtedly be of service to some one in the future who 

 undertakes the examination of these forms. The list was pre- 

 pared in connection with my studies of the Carboniferous 

 Amphibia of North America. 



No attempt has been made to construct a complete cata- 

 logue of the species of fossil Amphibia, showing synonomy and 

 indicating all references. This will be left to others. The list 

 will serve the purpose of showing the geographical distribu- 

 tion of fossil Amphibia and the number of species described, 

 as well as indicating the original place of description of each 

 species. There is no doubt that many of the species listed be- 

 low are synonyms, but in the present imperfect state of our 

 knowledge of the species a correct arrangement of them would 

 be almost impossible and nearly worthless. The list is written 

 primarily with a view to a revision of the genera and species 

 of the fossil Amphibia of the world and is published here as 



Received for publication, March 22, 1914. 



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