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8. On a Skull of Tapinocephalus atherstoni, Owen. By S. H. 



HAUGHTON, B.A. 



EECENTLY the South African Museum was presented with a skull, 

 without the lower jaw, by Mr. P. Le Eoux, of Uitkyk, in the Gouph 

 district of Beaufort West, by whom other Dinocephalian bones have 

 been donated in the past. This skull almost certainly belongs to 

 Tapinocephalus atherstoni, and is the only skull we yet possess. 



FIG. 4. TapinocephaliLS atherstoni, Owen. 

 Top view of skull, x & 



Tapinocephalus atherstoni was described by Owen in 1876 from 

 an imperfect snout sent by Dr. W. G. Atherstone from Jan Willem's 

 Fontein, Prince Albert District. A large number of other bones were 

 sent by Atherstone at the same time, but these bones have apparently 

 got mixed, and some of them were figured by Owen as bones of 

 Pareiasaurus. From the Brit. Mus. Catalogue there would appear 

 to be nearly a whole skeleton of Tapinocephalus all bones sent by 

 Atherstone in 1872. Some of the bones are said to come from 

 Gats-Plaatz, others from Vers Fontein, but as there is admittedly 

 some doubt about some of the localities, and as no bone occurs in 



