Name: Colosteus.
Phonetic: Col-o-ste-us.
Named By: Edward Drinker Cope - 1862.
Synonyms: Colosteus crassicutatus,
Colosteus pauciradiatus, Pygopterus scutellatus, Macrerpeton
deani, Sauropleura scutellata, Sauropleura pauciradiata,
Sauropleura longidentata.
Classification: Chordata, Amphibia,
Temnospondyli, Colosteidae.
Species: C. scutellatus
(type).
Diet: Carnivore/Piscivore.
Size: Skull about 14 centimetres long. Total
body length roughly about 1 meter.
Known locations: USA, Ohio.
Time period: Carboniferous.
Fossil representation: Skull and partial remains.
Colosteus is a genus of colosteid amphibian that lived in the USA during the Carboniferous.
Further reading
- An Overview of the Upper Carboniferous Fossil Deposit at Linton,
Ohio -. The Ohio Journal of Science 88 (1): 55–60.
- Colosteus scutellatus (Newberry), a
Primitive Temnospondyl
Amphibian from the Middle Pennsylvanian of Linton, Ohio. -
American Museum Novitates (2770): 1–41. - Robert W.
Hook - 1983.