. Catalogue of casts of fossils, from the principal museums of Europe and America, with short descriptions and illustrations. Fossils. 72 VEKTEBRATA. of the P. is not far from the crocodilian family. This skull was discovered in the Keuper sandstone (Upper Trias) at Stuttgardt, Wirtemberg, and is in the Royal Museum of that city. The lower jaw is in the British Museum. Size, 2 ft. 6 in. x 13 inch. Price, with mountings, $ Phytosanrus Jsegeri. No. ! Front op Lower Jaw. the Museum at Stuttsrardt. From the same locality as the preceding, and in Size, 6x3. Price, $ No. 273. Acteosaurus T


. Catalogue of casts of fossils, from the principal museums of Europe and America, with short descriptions and illustrations. Fossils. 72 VEKTEBRATA. of the P. is not far from the crocodilian family. This skull was discovered in the Keuper sandstone (Upper Trias) at Stuttgardt, Wirtemberg, and is in the Royal Museum of that city. The lower jaw is in the British Museum. Size, 2 ft. 6 in. x 13 inch. Price, with mountings, $ Phytosanrus Jsegeri. No. ! Front op Lower Jaw. the Museum at Stuttsrardt. From the same locality as the preceding, and in Size, 6x3. Price, $ No. 273. Acteosaurus Tommasinii, Meyer. Skeleton, on slab. This specimen is from the Lower Chalk at Comen, Austria, and is in the Museum at Trieste. The head is wanting. Size, 10x5. Price, $ No. 274. Atoposanrns Oberndorferi, Meyer. Skeleton, on slab. This fossil, belonging to the Tylerian Museum at Haar- lem, Holland, is from the lithographic slate at Kelheim, Bavaria. Price, $ No 275. Kutiodon Carolinensis, Emmons. Head. This Lacertian, found with the earliest of Mammals—the Droma- therium—in the Permian shales of North Carolina, has a nearly cylindrical upper jaw prolonged like that of the Teleosaiirus, with a spoon-like enlargement at its end. The premaxillary is of one solid piece. The nostrils, which are just ante- rior to the large eye-sockets, descend vertically like the blow-holes of a Cetacean. The original of this cast is in the State Cabinet at Raleigh, N. C. Size, 22x7. Price, $ No. 276. Saurophidiuni Skeleton, on slab. From the lithographic limestone in the De- partment of Ain, France, and now in the Museum of Natural History at Lyons. Size, 2 ft. 7 in. x 11 rru Price, $ No. 277. Sauranodon incisivus. Skeleton, on slab. From the same locality and Museum as preceding. Size, 25 x 10. Price, $ No. 278. Dicynodon lacerticeps, Owen. Skull. This singular Reptile, hitherto found only in the Trias of South Africa, exbibits in the modi- fications of the


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