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There is also a discussion with regard to the true position 

 of a bone which has been regarded as the clavicle of this 

 dinosaur. 



Of much wider scope is the description by Dr. F. von Huene, 

 published in Gcologische und Palceontologische Abhaudlungen, 

 Jena (xii. art. 2), of dinosaurian remains from the Trias of 

 extra-European countries. The genera described include the 

 South African Euscelesaurus, Massospondyliis, and Thccodonto- 

 saurus (typically European), and the North American Ancliisaurus, 

 Ccelop/iysis, and Amnwsaurus, of the Connecticut Valley. Of 

 these the first five are included in the Theropoda, or carnivorous 

 group— the first in the family Platcosauridce, the next three in the 

 Thecodontosauridce, and the fifth in the Coduridce. The sixth 

 genus, on the other hand, is referred to the Orthopoda, in which 

 it probably represents the family Nanosauridcv. 



In vol. xxii. art. 2 of the Bulletin of the American Museum 

 of Natural History, Prof. H. F. Osborn has given a complete 

 description and restoration of the skeleton of the recently 

 discovered carnivorous dinosaur Tyrannosaurus from the Upper 

 Cretaceous of North America. This reptile stood about 16 ft. 

 to the crown of the head, and there is a possibility that it may 

 have carried armour. The most remarkable feature in its 

 osteology is the presence of a series of abdominal ribs com- 

 parable to those of the tuatera (Sphenodon), such structures 

 having hitherto been unrecorded among either dinosaurs or 

 crocodiles. The author states, however, that they exist in the 

 allied genus Allosaurus, and suggests that they may also be 

 represented in the herbivorous sauropodous dinosaurs, in which 

 group they have been regarded as referable to the shoulder- 

 girdle. 



From the Lower Jurassic of Victoria, Australia, Dr. A. Smith 

 Woodward (Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 7, vol. xviii. pp. 1-3) has 

 recorded the claw of a dinosaur apparently nearly allied to 

 Megalosaurus. The identification is of considerable importance 

 as strengthening the evidence as to Australia having been in 

 connection with continental land-masses during the epoch in 

 question. 



In connection with the last paragraph, it may be noted that 

 in the Beitr. Pal. Oestcr.-Ung. Franz Baron Nopcsa elaborates 

 a previous account of the greater part of the skeleton of a large 

 carnivorous dinosaur from the Oxford Clay of Oxford in the 



