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11661
Scientific Name Dissorophoidea
Location Nebraska
Specimen Condition Fossil -- Period: Permian
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Creation Date 1997-1999
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ID 11661
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Comments Evolutionary trends in the development of the otic notch based on selected temnospondyls. Posterior region of the skull (not to scale) is shown in left lateral view. (A) edopoid Dendrerpeton; (B) amphibamid dissorophoid Eoscopus; (C) dissorophid Dissorophus; (D) cacopine dissorophid Cacops.
Reference modified from Holmes, R. B., R. L. Carroll, and R. R. Reisz. 1998. The first articulated skeleton of Dendrerpeton acadianum (Temnospondyli, Dendrerpetontidae) from the Lower Pennsylvanian locality of Joggins, Nova Scotia, and a review of its relationships. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 18(1):64-79.
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ID 11776
11777
Comments Dorsal ‘armor’ in dissorophids. (A) ossified dermal plates comprising the ‘carapace’ of Dissorophus multicinctus shown in dorsal view (DeMar, 1968); (B) hyperelongated neural spines of the dissorophid Platyhystrix in lateral view, showing extensive ornamentation on the lateral surface.
Reference (A) DeMar, R. E. 1968. The Permian labyrinthodont amphibian Dissorophus multicinctus, and adaptations and phylogeny of the family Dissorophidae. Journal of Paleontology 42:1210-1242. (B) Lewis, G. E. and P.P. Vaughn. 1965. Early Permian vertebrates from the Cutler Formation of the Placerville area, Colorado. U. S. Geological Survey Professional Papers 503C.
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ID 11777
13342
Scientific Name Ecolsonia cutlerensis
Location North-central New Mexico
Specimen Condition Fossil -- Period: Early Permian (Cutler Fm)
Identified By Berman et al., 1985
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ID 13342
13477
Comments Paleobiogeographic distribution of Permo-Carboniferous and Triassic dissorophoids based on selected fossil localities. (1) Utah, USA (Lower Permian); (2) Rio Arriba County, north-central New Mexico, USA (Lower Permian); (3) Badger Creek quarry, central Colorado, USA (Upper Pennsylvanian); (4) Baylor County localities, Texas, USA (Lower Permian); (5) Fort Sill fissure fill, Oklahoma, USA (Lower Permian); (6) Hamilton quarry, Kansas, USA (Upper Pennsylvanian); (7) Mayer Farm locality, Humboldt, Nebraska, USA (Lower Permian); (8) Mazon Creek, Illinois, USA (Upper Pennsylvanian); (9) Linton Coal, Ohio, USA (Upper Pennsylvanian); (10) Rotliegendes, Germany (Upper Pennsylvanian / Lower Permian); (11) Nýřany, Czech Republic (Upper Pennsylvanian); (12) Micropholis localities, Karoo Basin, South Africa (Lower Triassic).
Reference Modified from Kissel, R. A., and R. R. Reisz. 2004. Synapsid fauna of the Upper Rock Lake Shale near Garnett, Kansas and the diversity pattern of early amniotes; Pp.409-428 in G. Arratia, M. V. H. Wilson, and R. Cloutier (eds.) Recent Advances in the Origin and Early Radiation of Vertebrates. Verlag Dr. Friedrich Pfeil, München.
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Creation Date Late Paleozoic / Early Mesozoic
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