. Catalogue of casts of fossils, from the principal museums of Europe and America, with short descriptions and illustrations. Fossils. 64: VEETEBEATAo of the orbits, so that, viewed from above, it resembles a long-necked bottle. The orbits are situated in the posterior half of the skull, and the nostrils are lateral. This fossil was found in the Muschelkalk (Trias) at Bayreuth, Bavaria, and is in the Royal Anatomical Museum of Berlin. Size, 10x4. Price, $ No. 235. Nothosaurus mirabilis, Miinst. Skull. This Triassic sea-saurian had very large temporal, orbital and i nasal cavities. The pre
. Catalogue of casts of fossils, from the principal museums of Europe and America, with short descriptions and illustrations. Fossils. 64: VEETEBEATAo of the orbits, so that, viewed from above, it resembles a long-necked bottle. The orbits are situated in the posterior half of the skull, and the nostrils are lateral. This fossil was found in the Muschelkalk (Trias) at Bayreuth, Bavaria, and is in the Royal Anatomical Museum of Berlin. Size, 10x4. Price, $ No. 235. Nothosaurus mirabilis, Miinst. Skull. This Triassic sea-saurian had very large temporal, orbital and i nasal cavities. The premaxillary teeth were unusually long, strong and sharp ; there were two similar teeth in each maxillary ; the remaining serial teeth were small but acute. All the teeth were inserted in distinct cavities. The animal attained the length of seven feet. This specimen is from the Muschelkalk at Bayreuth, Bavaria, and is in the Tylerian Museum of Haarlem. Size, 15 x 6. Price, $ No. 236. Nothosaurus mirabilis, Miinst. Lower Jaw, anterior half. From the Muschelkalk at Bayreuth, Bava- ria, and now in the University Museum of Munich. Size, 9x3. Price, $ No. 237. Placodus gigas,"'Agass. Skull. This Reptile (formerly called a Fish) was an Enaliosaurian, according to Owen, breathing the air like Cetaceans. No part, save the head has been found. The cranium is as broad as long, the figure viewed from above being that of a right- angled triangle with the corners rounded off. No other number of the class has such wide temporal fossas and strong zygomatic arches; the lower jaw, moreover, presents an excessive development of the coronoid process. These developments, for great size and power of action of the biting and grind- ing muscles, relate to a most extraordinary form and size of the teeth, which resemble paving stones, and were evidently adapted to crack and bruise shells and crusts of marine Invertebrates. The palatal teeth, three on each side, are of large size; the maxill
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