. Water reptiles of the past and present . Fig. 88.—Restoration of Champsosanrns living Galapagos lizards. The skull was lightly built, and the facewas long and slender, like that of the gavials and proganosaurs;but, like those of the former and unlike those of the latter, thenostrils were situated at the extreme tip. The hind legs werefirmly attached to the body by the sacrum; and no sclerotic bonesof the eyes have been discovered. The neck was neither unusuallylong nor unusually short. The body was probably covered withhorny scales. RH YNCHOCEPHA LI A 181 To the student of paleontology these
. Water reptiles of the past and present . Fig. 88.—Restoration of Champsosanrns living Galapagos lizards. The skull was lightly built, and the facewas long and slender, like that of the gavials and proganosaurs;but, like those of the former and unlike those of the latter, thenostrils were situated at the extreme tip. The hind legs werefirmly attached to the body by the sacrum; and no sclerotic bonesof the eyes have been discovered. The neck was neither unusuallylong nor unusually short. The body was probably covered withhorny scales. RH YNCHOCEPHA LI A 181 To the student of paleontology these animals are of interestbecause of the retention of several primitive traits which had long. Fig. 89.—Champsosaurus; skull from above. (After Brown) disappeared in other known reptiles. While the vertebrae hadceased to be perforated by the notochord, as in the early reptiles,they were still shallowly biconcave. The first bone of the neck, 182 WATER REPTILES OF THE PAST AND PRESENT
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