. Catalogue of the fossil Reptilia and Amphibia in the British Museum (Natural history) ... By Richard Lydekker ... Reptiles, Fossil; Amphibians, Fossil. TESTPDINIDJE. 121 I tremities are wanting, and some of the bones are some- what dislocated. In contour, as well as in the form of the vertebral shields and their relations to the underlying neural bones, this specimen precisely resembles the pre- ceding one. Cautley Collection. R. 959. An imperfect and crushed shell, probably referable to an adult female of this species; from the Siwalik Hills. The carapace is crushed and broken, and shows no
. Catalogue of the fossil Reptilia and Amphibia in the British Museum (Natural history) ... By Richard Lydekker ... Reptiles, Fossil; Amphibians, Fossil. TESTPDINIDJE. 121 I tremities are wanting, and some of the bones are some- what dislocated. In contour, as well as in the form of the vertebral shields and their relations to the underlying neural bones, this specimen precisely resembles the pre- ceding one. Cautley Collection. R. 959. An imperfect and crushed shell, probably referable to an adult female of this species; from the Siwalik Hills. The carapace is crushed and broken, and shows no charac- teristic features; but the plastron, although rendered Fig. Hardella thurgi.—Carapace. Keduced. ww, nuchal; n \-n 8, neurals ; cl-c8, costals ; spy 1-2, suprapygals; py, pygal; m \-m 11, marginals. [The hinder border of the 4th vertebral shield usually cuts the 7th instead of the 8th neural bone.] convex by pressure, is well preserved. In its straight humero-pectoral sulcus this plastron agrees with the pre- sent species, as distinct from Cachuga lineata (compare ' Palseontologia Indica,' op. cit. pi. xxiii. figs. 1 a and 2 a). Cautley Collection. 39834. The somewhat imperfect shell of an adult female; from the (Fig.) Siwalik Hills. Figured by the writer, op. cit. pL Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Geology; Lydekker, Richard, 1849-1915. London, Printed by order of the Trustees
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