42-4 Annals of the South African Museum. 



separates it from the other genera, and on the other hand brings it 

 very close to them. The shortness of caudal vertebrae, especially 

 the posterior ones, does not occur to such a degree in other Plateosaurs, 

 likewise the shortness and compression of the phalanges of the foot 

 and consequently also of the metatarsals. The greatest similarity is 

 \\itli Gresslijosauruts. The fourth trochanter lies in the lower half 

 of the femur as in Gresslyosaunts, certainly rather lower than in that 

 genus; hut the whole femur is, in proportion to the enormous vertebral 

 column in its central part, conspicuously shorter than in Gresslyosaurus 

 and the other Plateosaurs. The tibia is extremely strong at the 

 proximal end. The dorsal vertebral centrum is higher than in other 

 IMateosaiirs. The third sacral centrum is pointed below. The troch- 

 anter major of the femur is larger than in other Plateosaurs. 



'/'///>?. In British Museum. 



Locality. "Stnrmherg", C.P. Almost certainly from the Kraai River. 



Horizon. Base of Red Beds. 



EUSKELESAURUS CAPENSis (Lydekker). 



ISS9. Lydekker. Orinosawus capensis Geol. Mag. Ser. 3, vol. VI, 

 p. :553. 



m()6. von Huene. Geol. mid Paiaeont. Abli. N.F. Bd. VII, Hft. 2, 

 p. l k JH. 



This is known only from the proximal end of a tibia and a small 

 portion of a femur. It is larger than the type species. The form 

 of the proximal end of the tibia is characteristic, and it is possible 

 that the species is generically distinct from E. browni. Too little is 

 known of it, however, to warrant such a separation being made, and 

 none of the bones in the South African Museum collection can be 

 assigned to the species. 



EUSKELESAURUS AFRICANUS sp. nov. 

 Text figs. 40-41. 



From Kromme Spruit come a number of large bones found weathered 

 down the slope of the kopje that yielded Plateosaurus cullingivortln. 

 Of these, a number of vertebrae, two attached ischia, and some ilia 

 are the most completely preserved. There are also portions of tibiae 

 and of a femur which are. however, not sufficiently complete to 

 admit of satisfactory comparison with those of Emkelesaurus. The 

 animals represented by these bones must have been somewhat smaller 

 than E. browni and 1 have therefore decided to keep them in the 

 already-established genus and to designate them as Euskelesaurus 



