. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. Investigations in South African Fossil Reptiles and Amphibia. 255 The exoccipital forms a large rounded condyle. It is not visible in ventral view, but that fact may be due to crushing of the skull. The inner face of the quadrate ramus of the pterygoid is slightly chan-. Tbxt-fig. 18.—Microposaurus casei, gen. et sp. nov. Palatal view of tj'pe. nelled ; and between it and the exoccipital the large fenestra ovalis runs forward into the brain. The floor of this opening is mostly formed by the pterygoid
. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. Investigations in South African Fossil Reptiles and Amphibia. 255 The exoccipital forms a large rounded condyle. It is not visible in ventral view, but that fact may be due to crushing of the skull. The inner face of the quadrate ramus of the pterygoid is slightly chan-. Tbxt-fig. 18.—Microposaurus casei, gen. et sp. nov. Palatal view of tj'pe. nelled ; and between it and the exoccipital the large fenestra ovalis runs forward into the brain. The floor of this opening is mostly formed by the pterygoid, as in Trematosaurus hrauni. The exoccipital is pierced above this fossa—at the place where it turns outwards to form the lateral wing of the bone—by a small foramen opening into a straight canal which leads forwards and 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 South African Museum. Cape Town : The Museum
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