Eryops Skull

Skull (cast) of the prehistoric amphibian Eryops megacephalus from Valley Anatomical Preparations, Canoga Park, CA.

Souvenir postcards, the first (directly below) showing a life-sized Eryops statue at “Prehistoric Gardens,” on the Oregon Coast Highway 101; the other (below, left), from The Field Museum) postcard showing a full-scale walk-through Coal Age Swamp of Chicago, 300 million years ago, the kind of environment in which Eryops lives.

Eryops

Coal Age Forest

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Eryops life restoration (below) by artist Frederick E. Seyfarth as it appeared in the book The Golden Treasury of Natural History (1941) and reprinted in the booklet Animals of Yesterday (1955), both written by Bertha Morris Parker.

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