Owen, Quart. Jour. Geol. Soc. London, X, p. 207, pl. ix, 1854.
Dawson, Air-breathers of the Coal Period, pp. 10-16, pl. ii, 1863.
Type: Baphetes planiceps Owen.
Known only from an incomplete skull, which is large, broader than long; squamosals prolonged into obtuse horns. Teeth rather large, heterodont, arranged in a single row. Orbits placed well forward, frontals small, surface bones sculptured.
Baphetes planiceps Owen.
Owen, Quart. Jour. Geol. Soc. London, X, p. 207, pl. ix, 1854.
Dawson, Air-breathers of the Coal Period, pp. 10-16, pl. ii, 1863.
Type: Specimen in the British Museum of Natural History.
Horizon and locality: Near Pictou, Nova Scotia (Coal Measures).
The parts preserved include the premaxillaries, nasals, and portions of the frontal, prefrontal, and maxillary bones. The fossil is embedded in a mass of Pictou Coal from Nova Scotia and consists of the anterior extremity of the cranium ([plate 22, fig. 6]) and with the exterior surface of the bone embedded in the matrix, and its substance, for the most part, reduced to a thin layer by abrasion of the exposed inner layer. It displays accurately the contour of the fore part of the upper jaw, which was broad, obtuse, and rounded.