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[dinosaur] Macrerpeton (Pennsylvanian dissorophoid temnospondyl) morphology and relationships




Ben Creisler
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A new paper:

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Rainer R. Schoch & Andrew R. Milner (2021)
Morphology and relationships of the temnospondyl Macrerpeton huxleyi from the Pennsylvanian of Linton, Ohio (USA)
Neues Jahrbuch fÃr Geologie und PalÃontologie - Abhandlungen 299(1): 77 - 98
DOI: 10.1127/njgpa/2021/0956
https://www.schweizerbart.de/papers/njgpa/detail/299/96860/Morphology_and_relationships_of_the_temnospondyl_Macrerpeton_huxleyi_from_the_Pennsylvanian_of_Linton_Ohio_USA


The Pennsylvanian tetrapod Macrerpeton huxleyi is known by a fairly complete skull from the Diamond coal mine at Linton (Ohio, USA) and a range of further specimens from the type and other localities. It was a medium-sized dissorophoid temnospondyl with a highly aberrant cranial morphology, combining a slender skull, tiny marginally placed orbits, a wide skull table and enlarged snout. The premaxilla is larger than the maxilla. The posterior skull table is slender and elongate, the tabular bears a prominent horn, the choana is minute and located close to the interpterygoid vacuity, the vomer and palatine have large dentigerous areas, and the parasphenoid bears a wide Aâshaped denticle field and extended basipterygoid rami. The quadratojugal and ectopterygoid remain unknown. Macrerpeton is found to nest within the stem-group of dissorophoids, having plesiomorphic characters consistent with trimerorhachids and zatracheids, but sharing some cranial synapomorphies with Dissorophoidea proper.

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