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Annuls of the South African Museum. 



cranial region. Nevertheless, certain observations ran be made beyond 

 those published in the original description. 



As a whole, the skull is narrow and elongate, the orbits looking 

 outwards and the temporal fossae more outwards than upwards. 

 It is probable that the squamosal region was not very much broa- 

 dened. The snout is high, almost as high as broad in the canine 



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Fig. 1. Galesuchus gracilis, Htn. 



a. Dorsal view of type skull. 



L. Occipital view of left side of type skull. 



region, and is square in cross-section. The occiput is very sloping 

 the slope is probably not very much exaggerated by post-mortem 

 deformation. 



The dorsal and lateral surfaces of the skull have already been 

 described, and can be readily understood from the restored figures 

 given. Interesting features are the great depth of the infraorbital 

 bar. which is almost wholly formed of the jugal : the greater anterior 

 extension of the pret'rontal over the lachrymal, which is as deep as 



