Showing posts with label amphibian. Show all posts
Showing posts with label amphibian. Show all posts

Sunday, November 6, 2022

Greererpeton burkemorani Fossil


This cast of a fossil was displayed on August 2022, at the Harvard Museum of Natural History in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. An extinct tetrapod fossil is called Greererpeton burkemorani (Romer, 1969). The cast made of the specimen that was found at Greer Quarry, Decker's Creek Monongalia County West Virginia USA. It dates to the Mississippian Period. Genus first described by Alfred S. Romer in 1969. The species appears to be named after a Cleveland Museum of Natural History paleontologists John J. Burke and William E. Moran who uncovered fossils like this at Greer Quarry (the type locality).

https://mczbase.mcz.harvard.edu/guid/MCZ:VP:VPRA-4348 its record shows collector as CMNH which I suppose means Cleveland Museum of Natural History. So this might be a cast of one of their fossils. Visiting their web site, I found a 3D model of a different specimen CMNH 11093 from the same West Virginia locality.

 

Tuesday, August 30, 2016

Benthosuchus Fossil Amphibian Skull


Picture is of a Benthosuchus sushkini amphibian skull fossil. It dates to the Triassic Period. Fossil found in Scharzhenga River of Vachnevo Russia. Extinct creature is a distant relative to today's salamanders and frogs. It lived in rivers and lakes of what is now eastern Europe.

Fossil on display August 2016 in Natural History Museum of London, England.

Monday, August 31, 2015

Permian Period Limnoscelis


Here are some pictures of a reptile like amphibian that lived during the Permian Period. It is from the mobile phone game Jurassic World.

The creature is a Limnoscelis. It is thought to be a carnivore and grew to a length of about 1.5 meters.

The game is available for free for the Android phone in the Play Store.

Sources:

http://www.ludia.com/en/games/jurassic-worldtm-the-game

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limnoscelis

Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Eryops Amphibian Fossil



This fossil of an adult Eryops displayed at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History (August 2010).  The creature is an ancient amphibian that existed in the Early Permian Period (270 million years ago).  Fossil was found in Texas.