. Catalogue of the fossil Reptilia and Amphibia in the British Museum (Natural history) ... By Richard Lydekker ... Reptiles, Fossil; Amphibians, Fossil. O CHEL0XIA. Crtonur gangcttcus, Cuvier \ Of large size, with the sculpture coarsely vermiculate, and the plastral callosities very large. Skull (fig. 2) with a short and blunt muzzle, the interorbital bar in the adult narrower than the narial aperture, and the mandibular symphysis short. Hypoplastrals large and flattened. Hab. India. At the present day the species is known only from the Ganges valley. Pig. Trionyx gangcticus.—Frontal aspe
. Catalogue of the fossil Reptilia and Amphibia in the British Museum (Natural history) ... By Richard Lydekker ... Reptiles, Fossil; Amphibians, Fossil. O CHEL0XIA. Crtonur gangcttcus, Cuvier \ Of large size, with the sculpture coarsely vermiculate, and the plastral callosities very large. Skull (fig. 2) with a short and blunt muzzle, the interorbital bar in the adult narrower than the narial aperture, and the mandibular symphysis short. Hypoplastrals large and flattened. Hab. India. At the present day the species is known only from the Ganges valley. Pig. Trionyx gangcticus.—Frontal aspect of the cranium ; from the Pleistocene of the Narbada Valley. About ^. step, supraoccipital; par, parietal; , postfrontal; fr, frontal; , prefrontal; mx, maxilla; ju, jugal, , quadratojugal; or, orbit. The bone on either side of the supraoccipital is the opisthotic, externally to which is the squamosal.^ (From the ' Eec. Geol. Surv. Ind.') 39843. The cranium, imperfect posteriorly; from the Pleistocene (Fig.) of the Narbada Valley. Described and figured by the writer in the ' Palceontologia Indica ' (Mem. Geol. Surv. Ind.), ser. x. vol. iii. p. 204, pi. xxv. fig. 3, and also in the ' Eec. Geol. Surv. Ind.' vol. xxii. p. 56, from which the accompanying woodcut is reproduced. This specimen agrees in all respects with recent crania. Presented bg C. Fraser, Esq., 1849. 1 ' Ossemens Fossiles,' 2nd ed. vol. v. pt. ii, p. 186 (ISl-M).. 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). Dept. of Geology; Lydekker, Richard, 1849-1915. London, Printed by order of the Trustees
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