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bone, and no excavation for the hyoplastron; also in having the free border of the seventh 
peripheral much more obtuse and the upper border not in sutural contact with the costal; 
further, in having a single process on the free border of the ninth peripheral. 
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282. Fourth left peripheral, with section across riddle of length. 
283. Seventh right peripheral seen from above, with section across middle of length. 
284. Seventh right peripheral seen from below. 
285. Ninth right peripheral seén from above, with section near hinder end. 
Genus CHELYDRA Schweigger. 
No supramarginal scutes. Orbit directed outward and upward. Tail with large scutes 
inferiorly (Boulenger). 
__ This genus is represented in North America, in a fossil state, only by the following species. 
Cope’s Chelydra crassa will be described under the genus Hoplochelys. 
Chelydra serpentina Linnzus. 
Testudo serpentina, Linnaus,-Syst. Nat., ed. x, 1858, p. 199. 
Chelydra serpentina, SCHWEIGGER, Prod., 1814, p. 23.—BouLENGER, Cat. Chelonians, 1889, p. 20, 
figs. 3, 4. 
Cope (Extinct Batrachia, Reptilia and Aves of North America 1869, p. 125) reports 
briefly that Samuel R. Harrison, of Easton, Maryland, had found remains of this species in 
Pleistocene deposits at Oxford Neck, Talbot County, Maryland. They were accompanied 
by bones of Elephas americanus, Cervus canadensis, Cariacus virginianius, and Terrapene 
eurypygia. 
Family DERMATEMYDID& Gray. 
Plastron in most cases suturally articulated to the carapace; with an entoplastron, but 
without mesoplastra; the anterior and posterior lobes usually reduced in size. Nuchal bone 
with or without costiform processes. Neural bones reduced in number, except in Baptemys; 
some of the hinder costal bones meeting their fellows in the midline, except in the same genus. 
Peripheral bones in 10 or 11 pairs. Plastron furnisht with a full series of inframarginal 
scutes, except in Basilemys. The scutes of the anterior lobe perhaps in all cases modified 
from the condition seen in Baéna. Caudal vertebre in all the known forms proccelous. The 
hinder lobe of the plastron often with a scar for the pelvis, but the latter never suturally joined 
to the plastron. Temporal region not rooft over and no parieto-squamosal arch. Quadrate 
notcht behind for the stapedial rod. 
