ON ELGIN SANDSTONE REPTILES 



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The descriptive part of Mr. Newton's paper concludes 

 with the consideration of a sacrum and some vertebrae, the 

 exact determination of which he leaves over for the present. 



One remarkable circumstance brought out by Mr. Newton's 

 paper is that the fossil reptiles of Cuttie's Hillock, though 

 doubtless belonging to the same great geological epoch, are 

 all generically and specifically different from those found in 

 the Reptiliferous Sandstone of other localities near Elgin. 

 Both geologically and zoologically, there must still be an 







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FIG. 4. View of the top of the skull of Elginia mirabilis, Newton, also from a 

 gutta-percha cast, rather less than one-half natural size. Reduced from E. T. 

 Newton's figure, Plate XXXVIII. In the middle line is seen the large oval 

 pineal opening. 



immense hidden treasure lying below the surface in the Elgin 

 district; and the wealth of material is further indicated by the 

 fact that, since the publication of the present memoir, Mr. 

 Newton has presented another to the Royal Society in which 

 he describes two additional new reptiles from the district : 

 one from Lossiemouth, a small parasuchian crocodile which 

 he names Erpetosiichus Gmuti, and another which he refers 

 to the Theropodous Dinosauria under the name of Omit ho - 

 suchus Woodwardi. This memoir will be noticed in detail 



