. Catalogue of the fossil Reptilia and Amphibia in the British Museum (Natural history) ... By Richard Lydekker ... Reptiles, Fossil; Amphibians, Fossil. TELE0SAURIDJ3. 109 A. Mystriosaurine Group. The orbits placed more or less laterally; the posterior nares elon- gated and ovate, the middle line of the cranium more or less convex, and the supratemporal fossae generally not excessively large. Steneosaurus heberti, Morel de Glasville' (fig. 16), from the Lower Oxfordian of Normandy, seems to be the latest representative of the group, but in its large supratemporal fossse approximates to the ne
. Catalogue of the fossil Reptilia and Amphibia in the British Museum (Natural history) ... By Richard Lydekker ... Reptiles, Fossil; Amphibians, Fossil. TELE0SAURIDJ3. 109 A. Mystriosaurine Group. The orbits placed more or less laterally; the posterior nares elon- gated and ovate, the middle line of the cranium more or less convex, and the supratemporal fossae generally not excessively large. Steneosaurus heberti, Morel de Glasville' (fig. 16), from the Lower Oxfordian of Normandy, seems to be the latest representative of the group, but in its large supratemporal fossse approximates to the next group. Fig. Steneosaurus heberti.—Upper view of the cranium; from the Lower Oxfordian of Normandy, About TV . The bones on the right side of the rostrum are imperfect; there should have been a line connecting the apex of the frontals with the suture dividing the maxillae; the preorbital vacuity is not shown. Steneosaurus bollensis (Jager2). Syn. Crocodilus bollensis, Jager3. Teleosaurus bollensis, Holl4. Macrospondylus bollensis, Meyer5. Mystriosaurus bollensis, D'Alton and Burmeistere. Mystriosaurus teidmanni, Bronn 7. Mystriosaurus egertoni, Kaup 8. Mystriosaurus schmidti, Bronn 9. Mystriosaurus mandelslohi, Bronn 10. Mystriosaurus longipes, Bronn ll. Mystriosaurus muensteri, Wagner ]2. Mystriosaurus stukelyi, Winckler13 (inparte). 1 Bull. Soc. Geol. France, ser. 3, vol. iv. p. 342 (1876). See also vol. viii. p. 318 (1880). 2 Foss. Eept. Wiirtemberg, p. 6 (1828).— Crocodilus. 3 Loc. cit. 4 Handbuch der Petrefactenkunde, vol. i. p. 87 (1829). 5 Nova Acta Ac. Cses. vol. xv. pt. 2, p. 196 (1831). 6 Der fossile Gavial von Boll, p. 73 (1854). 7 In Bronn and Kaup's ' Gavialartigen Eeptilien,' p. 28 (1841). 8 Ibid. p. 3. 9 Ibid. p. 28. 10 Ibid. p. 28. ll Ibid. p. 46. 12 Abh. Ak. Wiss. vol. v. p. 516 (1850). 13 Arch. Mus. Teyler, vol. iv. art. 1, p. 132 (1876).. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digi
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