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bones, of several species of Crocodile, Alligator, and other reptiles, from 

 the Eocene deposits at Hordwell, Hants : collected and presented to the 

 British Museum by SEARLES WOOD, Esq. F.G.S. 



LIGN. 101. ALLIGATOR HAXTOKIENSIS; FROM HORDWELL. 

 (i not. size.) 



ALLIGATOR HAKTOXIENSIS. This fine lower jaw was figured and 

 described in the " London Palaeontological Journal," PI. I. It closely 

 resembles that of a species of Crocodile (C. Hastingsioe), discovered by 

 the Marchioness of Hastings in the same locality ; but the presence in 

 the upper jaw of the sockets for the reception of the inferior canines 

 when the mouth is closed, establishes its generic character. 



First Caudal Vertebra ofCrocodilusHastingsice. 

 I would direct attention to another fossil in this 

 Case, in illustration of a fact described in a former 

 chapter, (ante, p. 168.) The first vertebra of the 

 tail of a species of Crocodile, showing the double 

 convexity of the centrum. (Lign. 102.) 



12. (Upright-case, 2.) Model of the cranium, 

 and of the lower jaw and tusks, of the Dinotherium 

 giganteum, from the miocene strata at Epplesheim, 

 by Mr. Kaup. This skull, including the lower 

 jaw, is about 2 feet high, and 3 feet long from chin 

 to occiput ; the tusks, including the projecting 

 sockets sent off from the lower jaw, are 3 feet in 

 length; the excluded tusks measuring 15 inches. 

 This Case contains also a fine suite of molar teeth. 



Femur from Epplesheim, supposed to belong 



LIGN. 102. 



FIRST CAUDAL VERTE- 

 BRA OF CROCODILUS 

 HASTINGSI.Z. 

 (i not. size.} 



to the Dinotherium*: * a model in* the recess of" the window; length, 

 feet; circumference of the shaft, 25 inches; of the head of the bone, 

 29 inches. 



13. (Table-case.) A miscellaneous collection of Eeptilian remains from 

 the Wealden of Tilgate Forest, (from the collection of the Author,) are 

 placed here provisionally. There are many highly interesting speci- 

 mens in this Case, that were obtained with much labour and trouble 

 from the strata of Tilgate Forest ; but until they are classified and 

 labelled, any attempt to refer to a particular fossil would be useless. 



14. ( Upright-case, 1.) Model of one ramus of the lower jaw, with tusk, 



