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EEPTILIA 



CLASS III 



B 



known only from the Uppermost Cretaceous (Laramie Formation) of Mon- 

 tana. Wyoming, Colorado, and Dakota. They are chiefly remarkable for 

 the armature of the huge skull, the strong, pointed horn-cores of which 

 resemble those of the Bovidae. Their rugose outer surface exhibits distinct 

 vascular impressions, and was doubtless once sheathed with horny tissue. 

 Internally they are hollow at the base, but become solid higher up. 



Triceratops, Marsh (Polyonax, Jgathmtmas, Cope), (Figs. 349, 350). Skull 

 over 1*5 m. long, exceeding in size that of any known land animal. Facial 



region compressed and pointed, hinder half 

 greatly expanded and hood-like. There is 

 a sharp cutting beak in front, a strong nasal 

 horn -core, a pair of large pointed horns 

 over the orbits, and a row of sharp pro- 

 jections around the margin of the posterior 

 hood. External nares very large, placed 

 between the nasals and rostral bone. Brain 

 cavity smaller in proportion to the skull 

 than in any other known reptile. Besides 

 the dentary, which develops a large coronoid 



process, an articular. 



angular, 



surangular," 



and splenial are distinguishable in the 

 lower jaw. Atlas and axis are fused with 

 the next cervical to support the head ; 

 the two lumbars and first four caudals 

 fused with the sacrum, which has double 

 transverse processes, and the neural canal is not especially enlarged. Tail 

 of moderate length, chevron bones placed intervertebrally. The small per- 



FlG. 34H. 



Tria ratops serratvs, Marsh. Upper Cretaceous ; 

 Montana. Outer (.4), and lateral (B) aspect of 

 worn maxillary tooth, ] /i (after Marsh). 



Fig. 350. 

 I rorsus, Marsh. Upper Cretaceous ; Montana. Restoration of skeleton, i/ 70 (after Marsh). 



forated coracoid sometimes fused with the scapula in old individuals. Eadius 

 and ulna short and stout, the latter with large olecranon process; manus 

 with five hoofed digits. Ilium much elongated; pubis massive, but with 

 slender ,,os1 pubic process. Ischium smaller and more elongated than the 

 Femur not much longer than the humerus, tibia and fibula short, the 

 Later very slender. Astragalus usually fused with distal end of tibia; pes 



