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T;overed by bony plates. The carnivores 

 are for the most part very similar to 

 those in earlier beds and here again we 

 may feel certain that they killed the 

 Dicynodons and scattered their bones. 

 Of the skeleton of one of the larger Dicy- 



the front limb bones were also some yards 

 away, as if the carnivore which killed the 

 D icy nod on had dragged the head some 

 distance away and after having devoured 

 all it wished of this part had returned to 

 the carcass and dragged off the fore 



Dicynodon planus, from Beaufort West. Nearly perfect skeleton which probably belongs to this 

 species but as the skull is rather imperfect there is some slight doubt of the determination. The skiill 

 is much crushed and imperfect. The limbs and girdles are restored in as nearly the walking position as 

 is practicable [^ natural size] 



nodons shown in the illustration, the 

 skull was found about ten yards from 

 the posterior part of the skeleton, and 



Dicynodon laticeps. Top of the skull of a broad-headed form of 

 Dicynodon. This specimen is a male and had had a pair of large 

 tusks which unfortunately were broken off 



limbs. Contemporaneous with these 

 Dicynodons and carnivores are a num- 

 ber of small lizard-like animals of which 

 there are representa- 

 tives in the collection. 



The next fauna which 

 is well known is pos- 

 sibly a million years 

 later than that seen at 

 New Bethesda and may 

 be called the Burghers- 

 dorp fauna. It is char- 

 acterized by the pres- 

 ence of Dicynodons 

 even much larger than 

 those of New Bethesda 

 or the Endothiodons of 

 Beaufort West. The 

 carnivores belong to 

 the group of extreme- 

 ly mammal-like forms 

 called Cynodonts, of 

 which there are some 

 specimens in the col- 



