x lg 
the 
l, Wyman on Batrachian Reptiles foam Ohio. 159 
that their creation took place during the triassic period. The 
coal formations had been largely examined, thousands of fishes 
and still lower animals had been discovered, before the first 
life to.a period older than the Coal. How ever, in view ; of our as 
yet imperfect knowledge of the Old-red fauna, the question © 
May still be raised woetliet we have even now reached the 
period of primoidal rep 
isi remains a ae in this paper are important oe 
0 the proofs of the presence of reptilian life during the Carbo 
Tepes aa Nie the existence of at least three species ad 
Archegosa s, Ber’ 
} Deseri iption ar fos footmarks (of Thenar heterodactylum) found in the 
pirboniferous series, in Wes correla Co., Penn, by aa f- King, M.D, Am. 
ournal of Stlencis | vol. xlviii, p. 348, and in vol. i, new ser 
in On the evidence of fossil footmarks of a qu sirtired ailted t to ‘Cheirotheriam 
tse ii of ae aga by Charles Lyell, Esq., F.R.S., &e., A 
‘ts nee, vol. ii, ne , 25. 
‘ rein nf a repel ile, Niger sit ie Acadianum, Wyman and Owen,) 
lott poe scovered in the interior of an erect fossi pr Maen the coal 
Qu n Scotin, by Sir Chastin Lyell, F.R.S.. &e., and J. W sun, Esq. 
arterly Pity 7 the Geol. Soc., London, May 1853, vol. ix, p. 5 
On Reptilian footmarks in the gorge of the Sharp eee A near Pottsv tsville, 
Isaac Lea, Es sq. Pr rice a the Am. Phil. 9, p. 91; also in 
the in, Journ, of Science, Mie ix, new series, 1850, p. 1 od Tra An . Phil. 
ety, vol. x, Art, xxi, p. 3 8; a pile in his splendid nongraph blac a 
hs e Von Meyer. Palsantoaraphiie I, p. 112. ot 
On ey, rus has been disputed, but the investigations of ve ve eye 
Speen ben _ remains of a great number of individuals belonging to two 
Species, hay 1at_in addition to double occipital consis this animal pos- 
ssi well, cadery arms and legs, pt 34 are sufficient to establish its reptilian p, 
1855 
ptilian ae of 
r based upon 
len "Xo otice of a Reptilian in the Coal -y hase by J. W. Dawson, Esq, PGS, We 
nal of Geol, S Soc, London, vol. xi, p. 8 Coal shale, b 
otice of a Batrachoid fool ( Par aires Colei) in British agi . hee iy 
ee F.RS, &., Quart. Journ. of Geol. Soc. London, vol. Po 1E 
Was first recognised be ‘Prof. Miter | in the Museum of the Ear nnis- 
«&e., Quart. Journ. seh Soc. 1 
Eien, ports, on cae Geol. a Pennsylvania, nite otaipsat 
of Am, Acad. of Arts and Scien 
