. Annual report of the regents of the university of the state of New York on the condition of the State Cabinet of Natural History and the historical and antiquarian collection annexed thereto. No. 82. Ichthyosaurus platyodon.^ This head, five feet in length, is thelargest which has ever been found of this huge fossil Enaliosaurian, or MarineLizard. The muzzle is entire, and armed with many score of formidableteeth. The eye, seven and a half inches in diameter, is cased by an armor ofsclerotic plates, which protected it against the many injuries to which it wassubject in the fierce encounters
. Annual report of the regents of the university of the state of New York on the condition of the State Cabinet of Natural History and the historical and antiquarian collection annexed thereto. No. 82. Ichthyosaurus platyodon.^ This head, five feet in length, is thelargest which has ever been found of this huge fossil Enaliosaurian, or MarineLizard. The muzzle is entire, and armed with many score of formidableteeth. The eye, seven and a half inches in diameter, is cased by an armor ofsclerotic plates, which protected it against the many injuries to which it wassubject in the fierce encounters in which the animal engaged. The originalhead, which must have belonged to an individual over sixty feet in length,was found in the beds of Lias, Lyme Regis, No. 83. Isotelus me gist us.^ This speci-men, 22 inches in length, is a restora-tion, by aid of actual fragments whichhave been found. It shows well the headand tail-shields, and the interveningmovable segments by means of whichthe animal could fold or double its bodytogether. Lower Silurian: Cincinnati, Ohio. No. 84. Leytorhynchus giganteus.* The muzzle, two feet long, of a huge Gavial-like Saurian. Miocene Tertiary: Sewalik hills, India. THE WADSWOETH GALLEKY. 47
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