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tooth of Cladeiodon, jaws and bones of Hyperodapedon, 
lately described by Professor Huxley, and the former- 
named long since by Professor Owen. In his Paper on 
this genus in the Journal of the Geological Society (No. 98) 
Professor Huxley states that the nearest living represen- 
tative of the Hyperodapedon is the amphibious reptile 
Sphenodon of New Zealand ; and although in England 
the New Red Sandstone has a comparatively limited 
fauna, and that chiefly Reptilian, this formation in 
other countries has yielded remains of all the five classes 
of vertebrate animals, viz., Mammalia, Aves, Reptilia, 
Amphibia, and Pisces, besides an abundant and interest- 
ing flora. Further researches in the British Isles may 
therefore bring to light a larger and more varied series of 
animal and vegetable life, both marine lacustrine and 
terrestrial. 
Professor Huxley has also decided that there are two 
kinds of Dinosaurian teeth in the lower Keuper in this 
district, one allied to Megalosaurus and the other to 
Thecodontosaurus, a reptile found in the Permian con- 
glomerate near Bristol. Some vertebree sent to him by 
my friend, Mr. Kirshaw, and which belong to our Museum, 
are also supposed by the Professor to be of Dinosaurian 
character (Journal of the Geological Society, No. 101, Feb., 
1870. He also thinks that the vertebra of Labyrinthodon 
pachygnathus are Dinosaurian, and those ascribed to Laby- 
rinthodon leptognatus belonged to some other reptile. The 
ilium of the latter he believes to be intermediate between 
a Teleosaurian and that of a Lizard. I have omitted 
any notice of the Bunter Sandstone which underlies the 
lower Keuper, because in this county it is very thin, 
though a patch is recorded by Mr. Howell east of Poles- 
worth and north of Birmingham, the last just beyond the 
limits of the county. Nowhere in England are any fossils 
