. Catalogue of the fossil Reptilia and Amphibia in the British Museum (Natural history) ... By Richard Lydekker ... Reptiles, Fossil; Amphibians, Fossil. 152 LABYEDTTHODONTIA. 43636. Slab of sandstone exhibiting the outer surface of an imper- fect sculptured bone. The sculpture is pitted. Purchased, 1859. 14675. Fragment of sandstone exhibiting the impression of the outer surface of a bone with pitted sculpture. Purchased, 33073 Slab of sandstone with portions of a sculptured bone. Purchased, 1848. Genus METOPOSAURUS, Lydekker (n. nom.). Syn. Metopias, Meyer \ Skull (fig. 35) broad, with obtus
. Catalogue of the fossil Reptilia and Amphibia in the British Museum (Natural history) ... By Richard Lydekker ... Reptiles, Fossil; Amphibians, Fossil. 152 LABYEDTTHODONTIA. 43636. Slab of sandstone exhibiting the outer surface of an imper- fect sculptured bone. The sculpture is pitted. Purchased, 1859. 14675. Fragment of sandstone exhibiting the impression of the outer surface of a bone with pitted sculpture. Purchased, 33073 Slab of sandstone with portions of a sculptured bone. Purchased, 1848. Genus METOPOSAURUS, Lydekker (n. nom.). Syn. Metopias, Meyer \ Skull (fig. 35) broad, with obtuse muzzle; palatal vacuities ex- panded in front; premaxillary vacuities large and double; orbits large, oval, situated in the anterior half of the skull, and widely Fisr. Metojposaurus diagnosticiis.—Frontal aspect of the cranium, with the sculpture omitted; from the Keuper (Upper Trias), near Stuttgart. £. Letters as in fig. 31. (After E. Fraas.) separated from one another; lyra enclosing an oblong space between orbits and nares ; nares terminal, large, rounded and approximated ; frontals pointed behind, and excluded from the border of the orbit by the junction of the postfrontal with the prefrontal; squamosal, postorbital, and pcstfrontal elongated. Teeth apparently arranged 1 Neuer Jahrb. 1842, p. 302. Preoccupied by Gory in ]832 for a genus of Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Geology; Lydekker, Richard, 1849-1915. London, Printed by order of the Trustees
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