Historical reconstruction of the Lower Pennsylvanian biota of coal swamps of North America, including life reconstructions of tetrapod vertebrates "Hylonomus", "Dendrerpeton", "Hylerpeton", and "Baphetes". Original description accompanying the image, by its author: "“On the left hand "Baphetes Planiceps" is seen emerging with a ganoid fish in its jaws. Next "Dendrerpeton Acadianum" is represented slowly walking up the inclined shore, and leaving its hand-like footprints thereon. A little farther "Hylonomus Lyelli" is leaping in pursuit of an insect and "Hylonomus Wymani" stands a little more in the foreground, while "Hylerpeton Dawsoni" is disporting itself in the water in front In the middle ground of the picture I have placed a bank of soil, showing a section of a hollow trunk, similar to those in which the reptile bones of the Joggins occur, and on this bank and in the distance, I have endeavored to give some of the characteristic forms of vegetation of the period: Ferns, "Cordaites", "Sigillaria", "Lepidendron" , "Lepidophloios", and "Calamites".”"