. College collection of palaeontology. No. 85. [354] Teleosaurus minimus, Quenst. Skull (cast). This relic of the smallest Teleosaurus yet described, shows well the orbital sockets and the nasal fossae. It is from the Lias of Wurtem- \>evg, and is now in the University Museum of Munich. Size, 6x4. No. 86. [259] Leptorhynchus giganteus, Falc. and c;aut. Muzzle (cast). This fossil was found in the Sewalik Hills, India (Pliocene), and is in the British Museum. Size, 2 ft. 6 in. x 11 in. No. 87. [271] Belodon (Phytosaurus) Kapffli, Meyer. Skull and Lower Jaw (cast). This genus, with Steganolepi
. College collection of palaeontology. No. 85. [354] Teleosaurus minimus, Quenst. Skull (cast). This relic of the smallest Teleosaurus yet described, shows well the orbital sockets and the nasal fossae. It is from the Lias of Wurtem- \>evg, and is now in the University Museum of Munich. Size, 6x4. No. 86. [259] Leptorhynchus giganteus, Falc. and c;aut. Muzzle (cast). This fossil was found in the Sewalik Hills, India (Pliocene), and is in the British Museum. Size, 2 ft. 6 in. x 11 in. No. 87. [271] Belodon (Phytosaurus) Kapffli, Meyer. Skull and Lower Jaw (cast). This genus, with Steganolepis, were the ear- liest representatives of the order. This species had a long, slender muzzle, like the Gavial, and long, con- ical, curved teeth, which plainly point to a carnivorous nature. This skull was discovered in the Keuper sandstone (Upper Trias) at Stuttgardt, Wurtem- berg, and is in the Royal Museum of that city. The lower jaw is in the British Museum. Size, 2 ft. 6 in. x 13 ORDER LACERTILIA. The lizards may be described as having bodies elongated, and terminated with a tail; the legs usually developed and always with a pectoral arch ; the vertebrae procoelus (rarely amphicoelus), not more than two sacral ones, and ribs single headed; the madibles united in front, quadrate bone articulating with skull, and teeth in grooves; two nostrils, and usually movable eyelids. The skin is covered with horny scales or tubercles (sometimes bony). Formerly the order was grouped with the crocodiles as the Sauria. Some twenty families and toward one thousand species are now recognized, chiefly belonging to the tropics. The LaceHilia appear in Europe certainly as early as the Jurassic. None have been found in American Cretaceous, but they are abundant in the Eocene lake-beds, some of large size, and some, like the Glyptosauridae, being mailed with ornamented plates of bone. In IVTiocene and Pliocene they are Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page ima
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