Megapleuron zangerli
Subtitle: a new dipnoan from the Pennsylvanian, Illinois
By: Hans-Peter Schultze --.
Series: Fieldiana -- v. 33, no. 21; Field Museum of Natural History. Publication -- 1248; Publication (Field Museum of Natural History) -- 1248.
Publisher: Field Museum of Natural History
Published: 1977
Place of publication: Chicago
Subjects: Megapleuron zangerli.; Megapleuron rochei.; Paleontology -- Pennsylvanian.; Paleontology -- Illinois.
Other titles: New Pennsylvanian dipnoan
Description: Megapleuron rochei Gaudry 1881 from the lower Permian of France is redescribed. Small juvenile specimens from the Middle Pennsylvanian of Illinois are placed in the same genus as the new species M. zangerli. The genus differs from all other contemporaneous dipnoans in the arrangement of the bones in the skull roof.