The Annals and magazine of natural history; zoology, botany, and geology . indurated shale,and though, unfortunately, much of the skeleton has beenweathered away and irretrievably lost, sufficient has beenleft in the rock to give a very good idea of the type. Theparts discovered consist of a moderately complete lower jaw,a considerable portion of the maxilla with teeth, and a numberof other portions of the skull; the almost perfect scapula,coracoid, and precoracoid ; the humerus and radius; a femurand a tibia and fibula ; two or three imperfect vertebra? andribs; and a number of other fragment
The Annals and magazine of natural history; zoology, botany, and geology . indurated shale,and though, unfortunately, much of the skeleton has beenweathered away and irretrievably lost, sufficient has beenleft in the rock to give a very good idea of the type. Theparts discovered consist of a moderately complete lower jaw,a considerable portion of the maxilla with teeth, and a numberof other portions of the skull; the almost perfect scapula,coracoid, and precoracoid ; the humerus and radius; a femurand a tibia and fibula ; two or three imperfect vertebra? andribs; and a number of other fragmentary remains. Unfor-tunately the various bones are mingled together in almostinextricable confusion—the tibia and fibula lying across thescapula and the femur right across the humerus—so that it isa matter of great difficulty to develop the one bone withoutinjuring the other. As the form is of much interest, aud thethorough examination of the remains will necessarily takeconsiderable time, 1 have thought it advisable to give a shortpreliminary account of the
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