Bulletins of American paleontology . those of the alligators of the Southern this character I find it agrees essentially with those ofXew Jersey. The abdominal face is smooth, and marked by two, or apair of elongated holes, situated rather nearer the concavethan the convex end. The body is cylindrical, especially pos-teriorly. Prof. Owen refers the ]Sew Jersey saurian to thelizards and to the m^ososaurian type. The name which hasbeen conferred upon this remarkable saurian is my determination is right with respect to the identity ofthe j^ew Jersey and Korth-Carolina sp
Bulletins of American paleontology . those of the alligators of the Southern this character I find it agrees essentially with those ofXew Jersey. The abdominal face is smooth, and marked by two, or apair of elongated holes, situated rather nearer the concavethan the convex end. The body is cylindrical, especially pos-teriorly. Prof. Owen refers the ]Sew Jersey saurian to thelizards and to the m^ososaurian type. The name which hasbeen conferred upon this remarkable saurian is my determination is right with respect to the identity ofthe j^ew Jersey and Korth-Carolina specimens, it will beknown bv the same name. This vertebra is three and three North Carolina Geol. Sur.: Emmons 123 214 jfoeth-caeolesta geological surtey. quarter inches long, including convexity, which equals halfan inch, and six inches from the end of one parapophysis tothe other; across the concave articulation nearly two and shalf inches; across the convex, two inches; length of thelateral process, nearly two inches. Fig. 34 (x.). The entire length of this saurian cannot have been les3than twenty-iive feet, and it is a fact worthy of notice, that 124 Bulletin 249 north-carolina geological survey. 215 sanrians of this description inhabited a region as far north asNew-York, while at tlie present day their limits are conlinedto the central parts of North-Carolina. This fact, no doubt,indicates a milder climate in New-York and New-Jersey thanis known at the present day. All the large land reptiles areconfined to the warmer rea-ions of the irlobe.
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