. On the results of recent explorations of erect trees containing animal remains in the coal-formation of Nova Scotia [microform]. Paleobotany; Trees, Fossil; Paleontology; Extinct animals; Paléobotanique; Bois fossile; Paléontologie; Animaux disparus. C44 mi. ,1. W. DAWSdX ON EinX'T THEES CONTAINING ANIMAL Wifli tlioso reninins are ii i\\v bony sojilos ditt'erent from tliosn of iiny other species found in these ti'ces, iuul more resemhlinj; scales of Ganoid Fislies. They are soine- wliat rectangular in I'orin, enanielicd on the surface and beautifully sculptured with waving lines. In the same
. On the results of recent explorations of erect trees containing animal remains in the coal-formation of Nova Scotia [microform]. Paleobotany; Trees, Fossil; Paleontology; Extinct animals; Paléobotanique; Bois fossile; Paléontologie; Animaux disparus. C44 mi. ,1. W. DAWSdX ON EinX'T THEES CONTAINING ANIMAL Wifli tlioso reninins are ii i\\v bony sojilos ditt'erent from tliosn of iiny other species found in these ti'ces, iuul more resemhlinj; scales of Ganoid Fislies. They are soine- wliat rectangular in I'orin, enanielicd on the surface and beautifully sculptured with waving lines. In the same tnuik weic found some teeth and bones referable to ITf/h n D<nrso)ii, and it is not iin|)iissible that the remains above referred to may have belonged to some creature devoured by that animal, and which would not otherwise have obtained admission to the interior of an erect tree. The tree itself had been removed by the sea, all but a little of the base, and this was in a very nnsatisfiictory state, so that ddubt might even exist as to the limit between the deposit in the interior of the tree and that under its base. 12. Amlihjoihm, gen. nov. (IMate 40, figs. 67 to (11). h\ tree No. lO were foimd a few teetli and bt)nes which do not seem referable to any of the genera above named, though pretty certainly belonging to a member of the group of Mirrosauria. A fragment of a jaw 1 centimetre in length has ten cylindrical teeth, simple and smooth, with large pulp cavities and rounded regularly at the apices. With these are four vertel)r;e of the usual type, measuring together I centimetre. Fragments of cranial bones also occur and are obscurely pitted. There is also what seems to be the shaft of a limb bdiie and a few nval scales. A flat, somewhat rhombic bone with a style at one side may possibly be a thoracic plate or possibly a ])»henoid. The material is too scanty fir any satisfictory descrij)tion of this animal, but I have named it provissionally Ainhli/whin pruldemn
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