Description
- Edops
- Claw
- Permian Age
- Archer City Formation
- Graham, Texas
- Specimen measures .63″ long and will come in the 3.25″ x 4.25″ Riker Mount with Label as Shown
Edops (‘swollen face’) is an extinct genus of temnospondyl amphibian from the Early Permian Period. Unlike more advanced temnospondyls of the time, such as Eryops, Edops exhibited an archaic pattern of palatal bones, and still possessed various additional bones at the back of the skull. Edopoids also had particularly big premaxillae (the bones that form the tip of the snout) and proportionally small external nostrils. Within the clade, the most basal member seems to be Edops from the Early Permian Archer City Formation of the US, a broad-skulled animal with large palatal teeth.
