The skull structure of diplocaulus magnicornis cope and the amphibian order diplocaulia

✍ Scribed by Roy L. Moodie

• Book ID: 102902110
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1912
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 858 KB
• Volume: 23
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0362-2525
• DOI: 10.1002/jmor.1050230104

✦ Synopsis

The Permian vertebrate known as Diplocaulus magnicornis Cope is one of the most aberrant and specialized of all the extinct Amphibia. The species was first described by Cope from fragments of several crania and portions of the vertebral column; material which had been collected in the Permian of Texas prior to 1882. The genus had, however, been established previously on fragmentary material which had been discovered by Dr. J. C. Winslow and Mr. W. F. E. Gurley in the Pennsylvanian of Vermilion County, Illinois. The genus Diplocaulus was first located by Cope in 1881 among the Pelycosauria, but later researches inclined him to place the form among the stegocephalous Am-