208 DESCRIPTION OF REPTILES. 
Genus Gaviatts, Oppel. 
Species. Gavialis Dixoni. 
The characters of the genus Gavialis are much more strongly marked than are 
those which distinguish the Crocodiles from the Alligators, and the portions of 
the lower jaw of the Crocodilian figured in Tab. XII. figs. 22, 23 & 24, and in the 
subjoined woodcut, demonstrate, by the slender proportions of the mandibular 
rami (figs. 2 & 3), the extent of the symphysis, the uniform level of the alveolar 
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Teeth and bones of Gavialis Dixoni. 
series, and the nearly equal distance of the sockets of the comparatively small, 
slender and equal-sized teeth, the former existence in England, during the early 
tertiary periods, of a Crocodilian with the maxillary and dental characters of the 
genus Gavialis. These characters are, however, participated in by some of the 
extinct Crocodilians of the secondary strata, in which they coexist with a different 
