THE ANNALS 



AND 



MAGAZINE OF NATURAL IIISFORY. 



[SKVEXTrr SRRIES.] 



"• ; per litora spargite museimi, 



Kaiiuleg, et circiim vitreos considite fontes: 

 Pollice virgineo tencros hic f-arpite flores: 

 Floribiis et pictiim. divse. rt^plete canistruro. 

 At vos, o TTvTiiphte Craterides, ite sub umlaa ; 

 Ttf. reciirvato variata i>orallia trunco 

 VcUit* mus'osis e rupibus, et mihi conchas 

 Perte, Dese pelagi, et pingui conehylia aucco. 



JV. PartheniiGianneUiiiii, Eel. 



No. 41). JANUARY 1902. 



1. — On Tivo Skulls of the Ornkhosaurian R'lampho- 

 ihynchus. By A. Smith Woodward, LL.D., F.R.S. 



[Plate I.] 



I. Rhamphorhynchus Geiiiuiiiigi^ Meyer. 

 (Fl. I. figs. 1, 2.) 



The palate of tlie Ornithosauria remains very imperfectly 

 known. A new specimen of Rhamphorhyncfius Gemming!, 

 acquired by the British Museum from the Lithographic Stone 

 of Bavaria is thus of considerable interest. It la a frao-- 

 nientary skeleton preserved in the usual manner on a slab of 

 fine-grained limestone, and among the scattered remains the 

 skull is shown directly Ir )in beneath. The mandible is fortu- 

 nately dis|)laced, so that the palate is completely exposed, an I 

 the only imperfections in the latter result from flaking at tiic 

 time when the block containing the fossil was split. 



The skull (fig. 1) exhibits its elongated and attenuated 

 form, with a slight production of tlie slender rostrum in 

 advance of the foremost teeth. The premaxillai {pinx.) arc 

 Ann. <X* Mag. X. Hist. Ser. 7. Vol. ix. 1 



