Complete Carboniferous amphibian – Cocytinus

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Description

Cocytinus gyrinoides
Middle Pennsylvanian
Cannel below the Upper Freeport #7 Coal
Ohio Diamond Coal Mine, Linton, Ohio, USA
Complete 90mm lysorophian amphibian on 155mm x 170mm slab. Extremely rare.

Carboniferous. Lysorophidae.

Cocytinus is a genus of extinct, limbless amphibian known from the Late Carboniferous of Ohio (possibly Europe as well) and the Early Permian of Texas.

The Linton site is long gone now. A nice fish from there is rare enough but an amphibian is rarer still. On top of all that, Cocytinus is perhaps the rarest amphibian from the locality.

Additional information

Weight 250 g