PERMOCARBONIFEROUS AMPHIBIANS AND REPTILES 6i 



the only known specimen, preserved in the University of Chicago 

 collections, consisting of a skull in connection with body and 

 limb bones, except the front digits, and an imperfect tail. Its 

 restoration, therefore, is subject to minor corrections when addi- 

 tional specimens are found. It was more of a terrestrial animal 

 than any other known amphibian from this fauna, though it cannot 



Fig. 3- — -Trematops milleri, a stegocephalian about three feet long. From Texas 



be called an upland animal, and doubtless it, too, could swim well. 

 This creature was about two feet in length and has a relatively very 

 large skull, fully two-thirds the length of its body to the tail. Its 

 teeth also were more powerful than in other forms, though of the 

 same general character. It is pecuhar in showing an orifice in the 

 skull for a facial gland, like that found in some modern amphibians. 

 A fourth and very peculiar type of the temnospondylous 



