EditorialCyathocrinites geometricus, Print, Cyathocrinites is an extinct genus of crinoids that lived from the Early Silurian to the Late Permian in Europe and North America.
EditorialDolichosoma, Print, Phlegethontia is an extinct genus of lepospondyl amphibian from the Carboniferous and Permian periods of Europe and North America.
EditorialConocardium, Print, Conocardium is an extinct genus of Rostroconchia. Its shell-mouth grew to be 2?3 inches (51?76 mm) across. It fed on tiny plants and animals in the water. Fossils have been found all over the world from Ordovician to Permian formati...
EditorialSyringopora caespitosa, Print, Syringopora is an extinct genus of phaceloid tabulate coral. It has been found in rocks ranging in age from the Ordovician to the Permian, although it was most widespread during the Silurian, Devonian, and Carboniferous p...
EditorialSyringopora ramulosa, Print, Syringopora is an extinct genus of phaceloid tabulate coral. It has been found in rocks ranging in age from the Ordovician to the Permian, although it was most widespread during the Silurian, Devonian, and Carboniferous per...
EditorialCyathocrinites tuberculatus, Print, Cyathocrinites is an extinct genus of crinoids that lived from the Early Silurian to the Late Permian in Europe and North America.
EditorialSyringopora serpens, Print, Syringopora is an extinct genus of phaceloid tabulate coral. It has been found in rocks ranging in age from the Ordovician to the Permian, although it was most widespread during the Silurian, Devonian, and Carboniferous peri...
EditorialFusulina, Print, The Fusulinida is an extinct order within the Foraminifera in which the tests (shells) are composed of tightly packed, secreted microgranular calcite. Like all Forams, they are single-celled organisms. In advanced forms the test wall i...
EditorialFossils of ferns from the Permian: Tubicaulis solenites, Odontopteris, Walchia piriformis and fruitbearing branch of a Walchia. Chromolithograph from Dr. Fr. Rolle's "Geology and Paleontology" section in Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert's "Naturgeschicht...
EditorialSclerocephalus haeuseri (Actinodon), Keraterpeton galvani (Ceraterpeton), Archegosaurus decheni, Phlegethontia longissima (Dolichosoma), and head of Loxomma under ferns. Amphibians of the coal forest and Permian periods. Illustration by J. Smit from H....
EditorialEdaphosaurus (Naosaurus) from Permian strata of Texas. Model restored by C. R. Knight. Photograph from H. N. Hutchinson's "Extinct Monsters and Creatures of Other Days," Chapman and Hall, London, 1894.
EditorialMastodonsaurus, extinct genus of giant large-headed temnospondyl amphibians of the Triassic, and Pareiasaurus, extinct genus of anapsid reptile from the Permian.