. Carnegie Institution of Washington publication. 170 FOSSIL TURTLES OF NORTH AMERICA. For description of the shoulder-girdle (fig. 206, from Case) and remarks thereon, see page [66. The structure of the anterior limb has also been described and illustrated. No pelvis definitely known to belong to this species has been described. References to femora supposed to belong to this species have already been given, but these may have belonged to other species, as T. procax or T. brai hyrhina. Case (op. cit., p. 378) describes a hind foot which he refers to T. latiremis. This has already been mention
. Carnegie Institution of Washington publication. 170 FOSSIL TURTLES OF NORTH AMERICA. For description of the shoulder-girdle (fig. 206, from Case) and remarks thereon, see page [66. The structure of the anterior limb has also been described and illustrated. No pelvis definitely known to belong to this species has been described. References to femora supposed to belong to this species have already been given, but these may have belonged to other species, as T. procax or T. brai hyrhina. Case (op. cit., p. 378) describes a hind foot which he refers to T. latiremis. This has already been mentioned on page 167. \\ agner has described and figured a portion of a skull of a turtle from the Pierre shales of Kansas, which he identifies as T. latiremis. The present writer has not seen this skull. The lower jaw figured bv Wagner certainly does not belong to T. latiremis. Toxochelys serrifer Cope. Figs. Toxochelys serrifer, Cope, Vert. Cret. Form. West, 1875, p. 299.—Hay, Bibliog. and Cat. Foss. Vert. N. A., 1902, p. 442; Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist, xxi, 1905, p. 178, figs. 1-7. The type of this species is No. 1835 of the Cope collection of reptiles and fishes in the American Museum of Natural History, New York. It consists of the greater portion of both maxilla?, the left dentary, the greater portion of the pterygoids, the right quadrate, the frontals. 208. FlGS. 207-212.—Toxochelys serrifer. Shows cutting-edge and grinding- 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 Carnegie Institution of Washington. Washington, Carnegie Institution of Washington
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