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Title: A New Order of Fishlike Amphibia From the Pennsylvanian of Kansas

Author: Theodore H. Eaton
Peggy Lou Stewart

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UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS PUBLICATIONS

MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY

Volume 12, No. 4, pp. 217-240, 12 figs.
May 2, 1960

A New Order of Fishlike Amphibia
From the Pennsylvanian of Kansas

BY

THEODORE H. EATON, JR., AND PEGGY LOU STEWART

UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
LAWRENCE
1960

UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS PUBLICATIONS, MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY

Editors: E. Raymond Hall, Chairman, Henry S. Fitch,
Robert W. Wilson

Volume 12, No. 4, pp. 217-240, 12 figs.
Published May 2, 1960

UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Lawrence, Kansas

PRINTED IN
THE STATE PRINTING PLANT
TOPEKA, KANSAS
1960

28-2495

A New Order of Fishlike Amphibia
From the Pennsylvanian of Kansas

BY

THEODORE H. EATON, JR., AND PEGGY LOU STEWART

INTRODUCTION

A slab of shale obtained in 1955 by Mr. Russell R. Camp from a
Pennsylvanian lagoon-deposit in Anderson County, Kansas, has yielded in
the laboratory a skeleton of the small amphibian _Hesperoherpeton
garnettense_ Peabody (1958). This skeleton provides new and surprising
information not available from the holotype, No. 9976 K. U., which
consisted only of a scapulocoracoid, neural arch, and rib fragment. The
new specimen, No. 10295 K. U., is of the same size and stage of
development as the holotype and it is thought that both individuals are
adults.

The quarry, University of Kansas Museum of Natural History Locality KAN
1/D, is approximately six miles northwest of Garnett, Anderson County,
Kansas, in Sec. 5, T. 19S, R. 19E, 200 yards southwest of the place
where _Petrolacosaurus kansensis_ Lane was obtained (see Peabody,
1952). The R