[CHAPTER XV.]
THE MICROSAURIAN FAMILY STEGOPIDÆ, FROM THE COAL MEASURES OF OHIO.
Family STEGOPIDÆ Moodie, 1909.
Moodie, Jour. Geol., XVII, No. 1, 79, 1909.
The chief family characters are the large lacrimal, unknown in other species of Coal Measures Amphibia, the central position of the orbits, the general form of the skull, and the peculiar, short, divaricate horns from the squamosal. If an intertemporal element is present in the skull, which is suggested as a possibility, the family is further distinct. The type species is Stegops divaricata Cope from the Linton, Ohio, Coal Measures.
The group seems to be distinct and has no immediate allies, being confined to the American Coal Measures.
Moodie, Jour. Geol., XVII, 79, 1909.
Type: Stegops divaricata Cope.