. YiG. 31—Anterior dorsal vertebra of Morosaurus grandis; front view. Fig. 32.—The same vertebra; side view. Tig. 33.—Traosverse section through centrum of same. All the figures are one-eighth, natural size. 6, ball ; c, cup ; rf, diapopbysis j /, cavity in centrum; m metapophysis ; n, neural canal; ns, neural suture ; z, nnteiior zygapophysis ; z\ posterior zyga- popbysis. The brain was very small. Its form and position in the skull are shown in fig. 2 of XXX. At the back of the skull there are two peculiar bones, called by the writer the postoccipital bones, which are shown in PI. XXX,
. YiG. 31—Anterior dorsal vertebra of Morosaurus grandis; front view. Fig. 32.—The same vertebra; side view. Tig. 33.—Traosverse section through centrum of same. All the figures are one-eighth, natural size. 6, ball ; c, cup ; rf, diapopbysis j /, cavity in centrum; m metapophysis ; n, neural canal; ns, neural suture ; z, nnteiior zygapophysis ; z\ posterior zyga- popbysis. The brain was very small. Its form and position in the skull are shown in fig. 2 of XXX. At the back of the skull there are two peculiar bones, called by the writer the postoccipital bones, which are shown in PI. XXX, fig. 1. THE VEKTEBR/E. The neck was elongated, and except the atlas all the cervical verte- br;e have deep cavities in the sides of the centra, similar to those in birds of flight. They are also strongly opisthocodous. The atlas and
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