Genus: Sauropleura COPE, 1868
Etymology:
= Eusauropleura COPE, 1868
Etymology:
= Oestocephalus COPE, 1868
Etymology:

Species: scutellata (NEWBERRY, 1856)
Etymology:
= Pygopterus scutellatus NEWBERRY, 1856
= Colosteus scutellus (NEWBERRY, 1856)

Holotype: AMNH 8669G

Locality: Linton locality (Coal mines originally owned by the Ohio Diamond Coal Company), NE corner Sect. 13, T9N, R2W, Linton near Wellsvile, west bank near mouth of Yellow Creek, Saline Township, Jefferson County, Ohio.

Horizon: Canneloid shale underlying Upper Freeport Coal, Allegheny Group.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Upper Westphalian D, Lower Upper Silesian series, Myachkovskian stage, Upper Moscovian Epoch, Middle Pennsylvanian (Late Carboniferous).

Material: Fragmentary skull and fragmentary skeleton.

Referred material:

= Trimerorhachis leptorhynchus CASE, 1902 (nome oblitum)

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Species: pectinata COPE, 1868
Etymology:
= Oestocephalus pectinatus COPE, 1869
= Ptyonius pectinatus COPE, 1875
= Urocordylus pectinatus (COPE, 1868) STEEN, 1938

Holotype: 6876

Locality: Linton locality (Coal mines originally owned by the Ohio Diamond Coal Company), NE corner Sect. 13, T9N, R2W, Linton near Wellsvile, west bank near mouth of Yellow Creek, Saline Township, Jefferson County, Ohio.

Horizon: Canneloid shale underlying Upper Freeport Coal, Allegheny Group.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Upper Westphalian D, Lower Upper Silesian series, Myachkovskian stage, Upper Moscovian Epoch, Middle Pennsylvanian (Late Carboniferous).

Material: Fragmentary skull and fragmentary skeleton.

Referred material:

USNM 6882:

USNM 6896:

HUREY, 2023

CM95953: Skull.

 

STEEN, 1930

Locality: Linton locality (Coal mines originally owned by the Ohio Diamond Coal Company), NE corner Sect. 13, T9N, R2W, Linton near Wellsvile, west bank near mouth of Yellow Creek, Saline Township, Jefferson County, Ohio.

Horizon: Canneloid shale underlying Upper Freeport Coal, Allegheny Group.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Upper Westphalian D, Lower Upper Silesian series, Myachkovskian stage, Upper Moscovian Epoch, Middle Pennsylvanian (Late Carboniferous).

Material:

R 2653: Impression of lateral surface of the skull and both lower jaws,
vertebrae and shoulder girdle.

R 2656: Impression of the skull, lower jaw.

R 2651: Impression of palate, lower jaws, dorsal vertebrae, shoulder-girdle and ventral scales.

R 2654: Vertebral column showing dorsal vertebrae, femur, and complete tail.

 

= Sauropleura marshi STEEN, 1931 (partim)

Locality: Linton locality (Coal mines originally owned by the Ohio Diamond Coal Company), NE corner Sect. 13, T9N, R2W, Linton near Wellsvile, west bank near mouth of Yellow Creek, Saline Township, Jefferson County, Ohio.

Horizon: Canneloid shale underlying Upper Freeport Coal, Allegheny Group.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Upper Westphalian D, Lower Upper Silesian series, Myachkovskian stage, Upper Moscovian Epoch, Middle Pennsylvanian (Late Carboniferous).

Material:

R 2659: Impression of dorsal surface of the skull, both lower jaws present, 13 dorsal vertebrae, ribs, ventral scales, and shoulder-girdle.

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Species: digitata (COPE, 1868)
Etymology:
= Eusauropleura digitata COPE, 1868

Holotype: AMNH 8004G

Locality: Linton locality (Coal mines originally owned by the Ohio Diamond Coal Company), NE corner Sect. 13, T9N, R2W, Linton near Wellsvile, west bank near mouth of Yellow Creek, Saline Township, Jefferson County, Ohio.

Horizon: Canneloid shale underlying Upper Freeport Coal, Allegheny Group.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Upper Westphalian D, Lower Upper Silesian series, Myachkovskian stage, Upper Moscovian Epoch, Middle Pennsylvanian (Late Carboniferous).

Material: Fragmentary skeleton and ventral armor.
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Species: foveata COPE, 1869
Etymology:

Holotype: AMNH 8676G and obverse AMNH 8675G

Locality: Linton locality (Coal mines originally owned by the Ohio Diamond Coal Company), NE corner Sect. 13, T9N, R2W, Linton near Wellsvile, west bank near mouth of Yellow Creek, Saline Township, Jefferson County, Ohio.

Horizon: Canneloid shale underlying Upper Freeport Coal, Allegheny Group.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Upper Westphalian D, Lower Upper Silesian series, Myachkovskian stage, Upper Moscovian Epoch, Middle Pennsylvanian (Late Carboniferous).

Material: Interclavicle and its impression.
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Species: newberryi COPE, 1875
Etymology:
= Stegops newberryi (COPE, 1875)

Holotype: AMNH 8612G

Locality: Linton locality (Coal mines originally owned by the Ohio Diamond Coal Company), NE corner Sect. 13, T9N, R2W, Linton near Wellsvile, west bank near mouth of Yellow Creek, Saline Township, Jefferson County, Ohio.

Horizon: Canneloid shale underlying Upper Freeport Coal, Allegheny Group.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Upper Westphalian D, Lower Upper Silesian series, Myachkovskian stage, Upper Moscovian Epoch, Middle Pennsylvanian (Late Carboniferous).

Material: Posterior part of skull and a considerable part of the body and dermal scutes.
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Species: scalaris (FRITSCH, 1883) BARID, 1964
Etymology:
= Urocordylus scalaris FRITSCH, 1883

Holotype: CGH 195

Locality: Nyrany (Nurschan), Plzen Basin, Bohemia, Czech Republic.

Horizon: Gaskohl.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Upper Westphalian D, Lower Upper Silesian Series, Desmoniensean, Upper Myachkovskian Stage, Upper Moscovian Epoch, Late Carboniferous (Late Pennsylvanian).

Material: Fragmentary skull.

Referred material:

CGH: Skull.

MP429: Fragmentary skull of a large individual.

Electrotypes:

Locality: Nyrany (Nurschan), 13 km south-west of Pilsen, Plzen Basin, Bohemia, Czech Republic.

Horizon: canneloid shales and musdstones of the Mian Nyrany Coal Seam, nyrany Member, Kladno Formation (formerly 'Lower Grey Formation')

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Upper Westphalian D, Lower Upper Silesian Series, Desmoniensean, Upper Myachkovskian Stage, Upper Moscovian Epoch, Late Carboniferous (Late Pennsylvanian).

Material:

BMNH R355: Fragmentary skeleton.

BMNH R356: Fragmentary skeleton.

Referred material:

PATON, 1975

RSM: 1 post-cranial skeleton.

BARTAK & IVANOV, 2023

UGV PAL00158: A complete skull with articulated right mandible, partial presacral and nearly complte caudal vertebral column, ribs and right clavicle.

 

= Ptyonius distinctus FRITSCH, 1901
Etymology:

Holotype: CGH 3010

Locality: Nyrany (Nurschan), Plzen Basin, Bohemia, Czech Republic.

Horizon: Gaskohl.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Upper Westphalian D, Lower Upper Silesian Series, Desmoniensean, Upper Myachkovskian Stage, Upper Moscovian Epoch, Late Carboniferous (Late Pennsylvanian).

Material: Skeleton missing part of tail.

 

= Ptyonius bendai FRITSCH, 1901
Etymology:

Holotype: CGH

Locality: Kostalov, Czech Republic.

Horizon:

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Late Pennsylvanian.

Material: Skull and fragmentary skeleton.

 

= Dolichosoma angustatus FRITSCH, 1883
Etymology:
= Urocordylus angustatus (FRITSCH, 1883) STEEN, 1938

Lectotype: St. 60 (Orig. 145)

Locality: Nyrany (Nurschan), Plzen Basin, Bohemia, Czech Republic.

Horizon: Gaskohl.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Upper Westphalian D, Lower Upper Silesian Series, Desmoniensean, Upper Myachkovskian Stage, Upper Moscovian Epoch, Late Carboniferous (Late Pennsylvanian).

Material: Fragmentary skull.

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Species: bairdi BOSSY & MILNER, in CARROLL, BOSSY, MILNER, ANDREWS & WELLSTEAD, 1998
Etymology: In honor of Donald Baird.

Holotype: MCZ 3443

Locality: Archer City Bonebed, Section I, Archer County, Texas.

Horizon: Upper Archer City Formation (formerly Putnam Formation, Wichita Group), upper Bowie Group.

Biostratigraphy: Land-vertebrate faunachron upper A.

Age: Wolfcampanian stage, Lower Rotliegendes Epoch, Early Permian.

Material: Snout region, including anterior rim of orbits, of a large individual.