Bulletins of American paleontology . r(^T^S. KMM(-XS. Tooth curved, robust, sub-conical andpointcTl ; crown circular at base, l)ecom-inir elliptical, and finally sub-elliptical, orwith the inside nioic flattened or lesscon^•ex than the other; bicarinate; theanteiior ridge becoming obsolete neartlie base of the crown, and without ser-rnlures or i-ugosities; enamel rather fine-ly wriidded longitudinally, or faintly ru-gose, and none of the rugosities extend tothe apex; d,entinc is concentric; pul]>cavity open, conical, carinate. Figuresnatural si/.e. Figure 42, transverse
Bulletins of American paleontology . r(^T^S. KMM(-XS. Tooth curved, robust, sub-conical andpointcTl ; crown circular at base, l)ecom-inir elliptical, and finally sub-elliptical, orwith the inside nioic flattened or lesscon^•ex than the other; bicarinate; theanteiior ridge becoming obsolete neartlie base of the crown, and without ser-rnlures or i-ugosities; enamel rather fine-ly wriidded longitudinally, or faintly ru-gose, and none of the rugosities extend tothe apex; d,entinc is concentric; pul]>cavity open, conical, carinate. Figuresnatural si/.e. Figure 42, transverse sec-tion. This tooth is broken at tlie l)ase of tlu;crown, and has lost a small part of itnapex. It differs very clearly from the Polyp tychodon, Pliogonodon, Mossosaurus or Pleiosaurus. The clear and distinct marks of difference are shown in the figures of each refeired to except the Pleiosau- rus. This tooth was found in the miocene near the Cape. 132 Bulletin 249 north-carolina geological survey. ^^-o 99; iear Kiver, in Bladen county. As the bones wliicli havebeen found in these beds indicate the existence at a prior pe-riod of two large and formidable saurians, so the teeth con-lirm this view, and I have placed in this connexion a sculp-tured cranial plate, (fig. 40,) which may have belonged to thi^species. Additional discoveries, however, are required belbre it \>][.>ossible to determine to which of these plates the teeth re-spectively belong. All the bones which are foun<l in the mi-ocene beds, are brokc^n, thougii thej are mixed Vsitli [)erfec!delicate This fact p)-ove3 that the bones were subjec-ted to violence before thej were imbedded, in the inioceneand hence belong. prol»ably, either to the eocene or green sand. In the cn]\<:mutilated teotlof Cai)c Fear. »xoT)OX LKiDY.—(^Figs. 43 6z 44.) ction of ]*rof. Fmrnons there are two, much 1 oi a saurian discovered in a miocene deposit Xorth-
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