Early Permian Vertebrates from the Cutler Formation of the ...

PERMIAN VERTEBRATES, CUTLER FORMATION, PLACERVILLE AREA, COLORADO
FIGURE 12.-0utleria wilmarthi n. gen., n. sp. A, tight lateral view of the skull of the type specimen, USNM 22099 ; B,
MCZ 2987, a snout fragment referred to Outleria wilmarthi. Unshaded areas represent matrix. Both X 1.125.
nestra is narrow from front to back, elongated vertically,
narrower ventrally than dorsally, and has its long
axis steeply inclined to the horizontal axis of the skull.
The largest maxillary teeth lie about one-third of the
way back in the length of the maxilla and are not
1narkedly developed as canines. No "step" in the anterior
part of the alveolar border of the maxilla.
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Known postcranial skeleton of same general proportions
as that of the varanopsid Varanops bre11irostris, except
that the limbs of 0. w{lmarthi are proportionately somewhat
longer and the postcranial skeleton of 0. wilmarthi
is closer in some respects to the sphenacodontid pattern
than it is to the varanopsid pattern, as in the more posterior
position of the supraglenoid foramen and the