. Palaeontological memoirs and notes of H. Falconer, with a biographical sketch of the author . lose upon 20 feet, andthe animal was said to have stood upwards of 7 feet high. DESCEIPTION OF PLATE XXXI. COLOSSOCHELTS The figures in this Plate have been drawn from the originalspecimens in the British Museum by Mr. Dinkel. Fig. 1. Cranium of Colossocheli/s Atlas, one-half of the natural Brit. Mus. number of the specimen is 39,819. (See pages363 & 374.) Fig. 2. Fragment of upper end of humerus, with globular articulatinghead of Colossocheli/s Atlas, one-fifth of the natural size.
. Palaeontological memoirs and notes of H. Falconer, with a biographical sketch of the author . lose upon 20 feet, andthe animal was said to have stood upwards of 7 feet high. DESCEIPTION OF PLATE XXXI. COLOSSOCHELTS The figures in this Plate have been drawn from the originalspecimens in the British Museum by Mr. Dinkel. Fig. 1. Cranium of Colossocheli/s Atlas, one-half of the natural Brit. Mus. number of the specimen is 39,819. (See pages363 & 374.) Fig. 2. Fragment of upper end of humerus, with globular articulatinghead of Colossocheli/s Atlas, one-fifth of the natural size. Thespecimen bears the number 16,913 in the British MuseumCatalogue. (See pages 360, 364, 374, & 381.) Fig. 3. Fragment of lower end of humerus of Colos. Atlas, numbered39,825 in the Brit. Mus. Cat., and drawn about one-fifth of thenatural size. Figs. 4 and 5. Represent two different views of upper end of femur,with articulating head of Colos. Atlas, one-fifth of the naturalsize. The specimen is numbered 16,518 in the Brit. Mus. Cat.(See pages 363 & 374.) VOL. I. Toll. Plate JBiakBiaiLetKtii. ColossocTielvs Atlas. WrWest COLOSSOCHELYS ATLAS. 375 The whole of its organization proved that it was strictly a landanimal, with herbivorous habits, and probably of the mostinoffensive nature. The generic name given by Capt. Cautleyand Dr. Falconer to the fossil has reference to its colossal size(koXossos et ;!^;), and the specific designation of Atlas, toits fitting representation of the mythological Tortoise thatsustained the world in the systems of ancient cosmogony. The principal part of the remains of the Colossochelys werecollected during a period of eight or nine years along a range ofabout 100 miles of hilly country. They belong in consequenceto a great number of diiSerent animals, varying in size and the circumstances under which they are met with, incrushed fragments, contained in upheaved strata which haveundergone considerable disturbance, there is no chanc
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