. Catalogue of the fossil Reptilia and Amphibia in the British Museum (Natural history) ... By Richard Lydekker ... Reptiles, Fossil; Amphibians, Fossil. TELOMEDUSID^:. 171 The skull has the characters mentioned under the head of the section. The mesoplastrals may be either complete (Slernothcerus) or incomplete (Podocnemis). Cope regards Stenotliarus as the type of a family, on account of the complete mesoplastrals. Fig. Pelomedusa galeata.—Palatal and frontal aspects of the cranium. (From Boulenger's ' Catalogue of Cbelonians.') Genus PODOCNEMIS, Wagler1. Including Peltocephalus, Dumeri
. Catalogue of the fossil Reptilia and Amphibia in the British Museum (Natural history) ... By Richard Lydekker ... Reptiles, Fossil; Amphibians, Fossil. TELOMEDUSID^:. 171 The skull has the characters mentioned under the head of the section. The mesoplastrals may be either complete (Slernothcerus) or incomplete (Podocnemis). Cope regards Stenotliarus as the type of a family, on account of the complete mesoplastrals. Fig. Pelomedusa galeata.—Palatal and frontal aspects of the cranium. (From Boulenger's ' Catalogue of Cbelonians.') Genus PODOCNEMIS, Wagler1. Including Peltocephalus, Dumeril & Bibron 2. Mesoplastral bones small, lateral, and wedged in between the hyo- and hypoplastrals (fig. 41); plastron large, with strong but- tresses, devoid of hinge, and with notched xiphiplastrals; humero- pectoral sulcus cutting entoplastral bone. Neural bones elongated, 7 in number, hexagonal, with short antero-lateral surfaces. ~No nuchal shield; vertebral shields hexagonal, with straight lateral borders, and not narrowed posteriorly. The caudal shield may be single. Skull with complete temporal roof; the quadratojugal uniting suturally with the parietal; edges of jaws not serrated. Podocnemis bowerbanki (Owen3). Syn. Platemys bowerbanki, Owen4. Podocnemis Icevis, Cope7. Emys Icevis, Bell5. Peltocephalus Icevis, Riitimeyer8- Podocnemis bowerbanki, Cope6. i Syst. Amphib. p. 135 (1830). 2 Erpetologie Grenerale, vol. ii. p. 577 (1835). 3 Rep. Brit. Assoc, for 1841, p. 163 (1842).— Emys. 4 Loc. cit. 5 Keptilia of the London Clay &c. (Mon. Pal. Soc), vol. i. pt. i. p. 70 (1849). 6 Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. vol. xiv. pt. i. p. 156 (1870). 7 Loc. cit. 8 N. Denkschr. schw. Ges. Nat. vol. xxv. art. 2, p. 159 (1873).. 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 British Museum (Natural History). Dep
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