for this, is probably that 

 the deatl animals were 

 devoured by small car- 

 nivores and the bones 

 scattered about by 

 them. In Australia we 

 find the same thing 

 happening to-day. The 

 carcass of any sheep is 

 almost certain to have 

 its bones scattered by 

 the native cats which 

 often drag- portions of 

 the animal for long dis- 

 tances to their dens. 



The carnivorous rep- 

 tiles that fed on the large Endothiodons 

 were almost certainly large wolflike rep- 

 tiles called Scymnognafhus |See figure of 

 skull in December Journal]. The ene- 

 mies of the smaller Dicynodons were 

 carnivorous reptiles called .Eluwsaurus 

 belonging to the same group as Scymnog- 

 natJius. In the collection besides speci- 

 mens of the large Endothiodons and the 

 large carnivorous reptiles, there are a 

 number of small dicynodon skeletons 

 from the Beaufort West region. The 

 two in the illustrations together with a 



Perfect skull 

 Broom, with the 

 the lack of a tusk 



of a broad-headed Dicynodon, Dicynodon moschops 

 lower jaw restored. This is a female as is shown by 



third not figured show very well the pro- 

 portions of this remarkable reptilian type 

 and are the first skeletons of Dicynodon 

 that have ever been mounted. 



At New Bethesda in Cape Colony we 

 have representatives of a fauna that lived 

 still another quarter or half million 

 years later. The large Endothiodons 

 are now extinct, and their place is taken 

 by moderately large Dicynodons. A 

 few small Pareiasaurians still survive 

 which dift'er from the earlier larger types 

 in having the back and sides completely 



Nearly complete skeleton of a small species of Dicynodon, Dicynodon psittacops Broom, from Beau- 

 fort West. The bones of the limbs and girdles are as found [About one-third natural size] 



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