. Catalogue of the fossil Reptilia and Amphibia in the British Museum (Natural history) ... By Richard Lydekker ... Reptiles, Fossil; Amphibians, Fossil. VARANID^. 283 42681. Five vertebrae, of which three are dorsal, one sacral, and one caudal; from the Pleistocene cave-deposits of the Wellington Valley, New South Wales. Presented by the Trustees of the Australian Museum, 1870. Group B.—The dorsal vertebra? short and wide, with narrow neural spines. Both species of large size. (Megalania, Owen.) Varanus sivalensis, Falconer l. Of large size ; the estimated length being about 3,660 (12 feet).
. Catalogue of the fossil Reptilia and Amphibia in the British Museum (Natural history) ... By Richard Lydekker ... Reptiles, Fossil; Amphibians, Fossil. VARANID^. 283 42681. Five vertebrae, of which three are dorsal, one sacral, and one caudal; from the Pleistocene cave-deposits of the Wellington Valley, New South Wales. Presented by the Trustees of the Australian Museum, 1870. Group B.—The dorsal vertebra? short and wide, with narrow neural spines. Both species of large size. (Megalania, Owen.) Varanus sivalensis, Falconer l. Of large size ; the estimated length being about 3,660 (12 feet). Hab. India. R. 739 a. An imperfect anterior dorsal vertebra ; from the Lower (Fig.) Pliocene of the Siwalik Hills, India. Figured by the writer in the ' Palseontologia Indica' (Mem. Geol. Surv. Ind.), ser. x. vol. iv. p. 55, fig. 11; one of the figures being reproduced in the accompanying woodcut (fig. 65). Cautley Collection. Presented, 1840. Fig. Varanus sivalensis.—Hainial aspect of an anterior dorsal vertebra; from the Pliocene of the Siwalik Hills. \. (From the ' Palaontologia Indica.') R. 740. A larger posterior dorsal vertebra, wanting the neural spine ; from the Siwalik Hills2. Same history. 40819. The distal portion of the right humerus; from the Siwalik (Fig.) Hills. The type specimen. Figured in ' Falconors Palacontological Memoirs,' vol. i. pi. xxxii. figs. 4-7 ; and also by the writer, op. cit. vol. iii. pi. xxxv. figs. 1, la, lb. Presented by C. Falconer, Esq., 1807. 1 Palseontological Memoirs, vol. i. pi. xxxii. (1868). 3 The specimen noticed under this number by the writer, 1. r , as a cervical vertebra of this species proves to bo Chelonian. 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, Print
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