This authentic fossil specimen is from the Pierre Shale (Lower Cretaceous) and was found near the town of Central
measured and casted by Craig Sundell
its nostrils were on the top of its head
6 million years
Ray had the vision and wrote the resolution
Platyrhinops (Amphibamus) lyelli, early amphibian skeleton Baryonyx This authentic fossil specimen isAmphibians, familiar to most people as frogs, toads, and salamanders, first appeared at the end of the Devonian Period. A notable Pennsylvanian locality is known as Linton, in Jefferson County, Ohio. Waste rock from a coal mine active in the 1800s, represents sediment deposited in a coal swamp lake, perhaps an oxbow lake, that teemed with fishes, including paleoniscoids, lungfishes, and freshwater sharks, and many species of amphibians and even early