ORDER VII 



CROCODILIA 



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The members of this family closely reserable modern gavials in size and 

 general appearance, except that they have smaller heads 

 and more weakly developed fore-limbs. The principal 

 differences are to be found in the characters of the palate, 

 eustachian passages, vertebral centra, ventral armour, and 

 absence of hypapophyses in the cervical region. 



Mysfriosaurus, Kaiip. Skull attaining a length of 1 m., 

 and total length upwards of 6 m. Snout 

 gradually tapering ; orbits superiorly fkj. 313. 



directed. Teeth implanted nearly ver- Peiagomums temp<yraiis, 



,-, .,, , . 1 , . Blv. sp. Upper Lias ; 



tically, with anterior and posterior Curcy, Calvados. Pos- 

 carinae. Known by complete skeletons \^l^f£^^; 

 from the Upper Lias of Würtemberg, P^iate, 1/2- ho, Basioc- 



. ^^ 11 r 7 77 • cipital ; c7i, Internal nares ; 



r rancoma, and Jingland. M. ooUensts, j, Jugai ; nu-, Maxiiia ; ^77, 

 Cuvier ; 31. chapmani, König. f?^ Quadrate! .^^^^^^''^'^ ' 



Fio. 314. 

 Teleosauruscadomensis,Cn\\e.r!i\). Bathon ian ; Caen, Calvados. .-1, Palatal; /J, Lateral ; C, Superior asi>ects 

 of skull. D, Mandible. J, Orbit ; o/tj/, Angular ; ort, Articular; ^o, Basioccipital ; hspÄ, Basisphenoid ; ch, 

 Internal nares ; D, Mandibular vacuity ; d, üentary ; //•, Frontal ; la, Lachrynial ; mx, Maxiila ; na, Na.sal ; op, 

 Splenial ; pa. Parietal ; pl, Palatine ; jnnx, Preniaxilla ; pr/. Prefrontal ; qv, Qua<lrate ; fpij, Quadrato-jugal ; 

 S, Suprateniporal vacuity ; S', Lateral temporal vacuity ; sq, Squainosal : t, Transverse (ectopterygoid) ; x, Sur- 

 augular (after E. üeslongchanips). 



