Genus: Baphetes OWEN, 1854
Etymology:

Species: planiceps OWEN, 1854
Etymology:

Holotype: NHMUK (old BMNH) R4056

Locality: Albion Mine, Stellarton, Near Pictou, Nova Scotia Province, Canada.

Horizon: Albion member of Division II, Stellarton Group.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Lower Alleghenian, Late Pennsylvanian.

Material: Fragmentary skull.

Referred material:

SCHOCH & MILNER, 2014

RM 3065: Skull fragments.


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Species: kirkbyi WATSON, 1926
Etymology:
= Loxomma kirkbyi (WATSON, 1926)

Holotype: NEWHM: G015.69, HM G15.69/70/91

Locality: Pirnie Colliery, near Leven, Fifeshire County, England, Southern United Kingdom.

Horizon: Earl David's Parrot Coal, Middle Coal Measures.

Biostratigraphy: M. modiolaris zone.

Age: Duckmantian, Lower Westphalian B, Lower Upper Silesian series, Lower Moscovian Epoch, Late Carboniferous (Early Middle Pennsylvanian).

Material: Natural cast of dorsal surface of right side of skull roof and palate, skull table and basicranial region.

Referred material:

NEWHM: G015.70 (HMG 15.70): Impression of palate, incomplete in mid-region.

NEWHM: G015.91 (HMG 15.91): Skull table and basicranial region.

 

BEAUMONT, 1977

Locality: Manchester, Lancashire County, England, Southern United Kingdom.

Horizon: Bradford Coal Group, Upper Coal Measures.

Biostratigraphy: Upper Phillipsii zone.

Age: Westephalian C, Middle Silesian series, Podolskian stage, Moscovian Epoch, Middle Carboniferous (Middle Pennsylvanian).

Material:

NHMUK (old BMNH) R2753: Part of a skull table with associated braincase.

NHMUK (old BMNH) R2755: Left premaxilla, possibly from the above skull.

 

= Baphetes cf. B. kirkbyi MILNER & LINDSAY, 1998

NHMUK (old BMNH) R. 9663

Locality: Tan Pit Slip Opencast site, between Worsley Mesnes and Bryn Gates, south of Wigan, greater Manchester, Grid reference: O.S. SD 588 032, Lancashire County, England, Southern United Kingdom.

Horizon: Ince Coals, close to the Ashclough Mussel Band, lower upper Coal Measures,

Biostratigraphy: similis-pulchra zone equivalent.

Age: Duckmantian, Lower upper Westephalian, Lower Upper Silesian series, Moscovanian Epoch, Middle Upper Carboniferous (Late Pennsylvanian).

Material: A partial skull together with associated postcranial remains.

Referred material:

SMITHSON, 1985

Locality: Airdrie or Mushet's Black Band Ironstone, near Airdrie, Strathclyde Province, Scotland, Northern United Kingdom.

Horizon: Coal Measures.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Westephalian B, upper Westphalian, Middle Silesian series, Kashirskian Stage, Moscovian Epoch, Late Carboniferous (Late Pennsylvanian).

Material:

Number: Not given:

 

Locality: Pirnie, near Leven, Fife Province, Scotland, Northern United Kingdom.

Horizon: Early Davids Parrot Coal, Middle Coal Measures.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Westphalian A, Lower Westephalian, Middle Silesian, Bashkirian Epoch, Middle Carboniferous (Early Pennsylvanian).

Material:

Number: Not given:

 

Locality: Quarter, near Hamilton, Strathclyde Province, Scotland, Northern United Kingdom.

Horizon Airdrie or “Muschet’s” Black Bank Ironstone, Middle Coal Measures.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Westephalian B, upper Westphalian, Middle Silesian series, Kashirskian Stage, Moscovian Epoch, Late Carboniferous (Late Pennsylvanian).

Material:

Number: Not given:

 

= Baphetes latirostris WATSON, 1926
Etymology:

Holotype: GS 28316

Locality: Airdrie or Mushet's Black Band Ironstone, near Airdrie, Strathclyde Province, Scotland, Northern United Kingdom.

Horizon: Coal Measures.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Westephalian B, upper Westphalian, Middle Silesian series, Kashirskian Stage, Moscovian Epoch, Late Carboniferous (Late Pennsylvanian).

Material: Skull.

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Species: orientalis MILNER, MILNER & WALSH, 2009
Etymology: Latin, oriens - entis, "eastern"; refering to the easternmost record of a baphetid.
= Loxomma bohemicum STEEN, 1938 non FRITSCH, 1885
= Baphetes bohemicus (STEEN, 1938 non FRITSCH, 1885) MILNER, 1980

Holotype: NMP M1388 (GH 3509) part, BSP counterpart (probably destroyed in WWII, 1945)

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

Horizon: Gaskohl, Lower Grey Beds.

Biostratigraphy:

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

Material: Small skull.

Referred material:

NMW 1898.X.42: Small skull, pectoral girdl and scales.

 

= Sclerocephalus credneri BROILI, 1908

Counterpart of type: Fragmentary skull.

Referred material:

MILNER & MIlNER, 1997

Skull in dorsal aspect, mandibles and some associated postcranial elements including a partial interclavical, a clavicle stem, a cleitherum, ribs and gastralia.