. The geology of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island, or, Acadian geology [microform]. Geology; Geology, Stratigraphic; Paleontology; Geology, Economic; Géologie; Géologie stratigraphique; Paléontologie; Géologie économique. ; LAND OF THE COAL PERIOD. 871 them to three spccicB, all nppnrontly gcnciiciiUy allied. T proponed for them the generic niimo /Itjlimomiis, " ; They were described in the Proceedings of the (ielogical Society for 1859, with illustrationfl of the teeth and other characteristic parts.* The smaller species first descr
. The geology of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island, or, Acadian geology [microform]. Geology; Geology, Stratigraphic; Paleontology; Geology, Economic; Géologie; Géologie stratigraphique; Paléontologie; Géologie économique. ; LAND OF THE COAL PERIOD. 871 them to three spccicB, all nppnrontly gcnciiciiUy allied. T proponed for them the generic niimo /Itjlimomiis, " ; They were described in the Proceedings of the (ielogical Society for 1859, with illustrationfl of the teeth and other characteristic parts.* The smaller species first described I named //. Wi/mani; the next in size, that to which this article refers, and which was represented by a larger number of specimens, I adopted as the type of the genus, and dedicated to Sir Charles Lycll. The third and largest, represented only by n few fragments of a single skeleton, was named //, aciedentahis. Hylonomiis Lt/ctti was an animal of snudl size. Its skull is about an inch in length, and its whole body, even if, as was likely, furnished with a tail, could not have been more than six or seven inches long. No complete example of its «kull has been found. The bones appear to have been thin and easily separable; and even when they remain together, are so much crushed as to render the shape of the skull not easily discernible. Thev are smooth on the outer surface to the naked eye, and under a lens mIiow oidy delicate uneven strias and minute dots. They arc more dense and hard than those of Dendrerpeton, and the bone-cells are more elongated in fonn. The bones of the snout would seem to have been somewhat elongated and narrow. A specimen in my possession shows the parietal and occipital bones, or the greater part of them, united, and retaining their form. We learn from them that the brain-ease was rounded, and that there was a parietal foramen. There would seem also to have been two occipital condyles. Several well-preserved specimens of the maxillary and mand
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