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Description: | Specimen of a fossil amphibian, Pholiderpeton attheyi, collected from the Modiolaris Zone, Low Main Seam (shale above), Middle Coal Measures of Late Carboniferous, Westphalian, Duckmantian age from Newsham Colliery, Blyth, Northumberland (NE England). Collected by Thomas Atthey. Pleurocentrum and intercentrum with a length of the shaft of a dorsal rib.
These bones are from a primitive amphibian that looked like a newt but grew up to two metres long - the size of a crocodile! Pholiderpeton was adapted to life in the water and had a long flat-sided tail for swimming. It had four short limbs that it used to walk on land. It lived in lakes and swamps of the tropical coal forests and fed mainly on fish. The species is named after the nineteenth century Newcastle palaeontologist Thomas Atthey.
The specimen was found in Northumberland.
It is from the Carboniferous period (362 - 290 million years ago) | Publisher: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Subjects: | Embolomeri Anthracosauria Labyrinthodontia Classification: Animalia Atthey Eogyrinidae Chordata Amphibia Vertebrata Thomas | Temporal: | Carboniferous period (362 - 290 million years ago) | Source: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Identifier: | http://www.twmuseums.org.uk/geofinder/se... | Go to resource |
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