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REPTILIA 



serrated anterior and posterior cutting edges. Cervical vertebrae slightly 

 £ opisthocoelous. Femur 1 m. and 



scapula 0*8 m. long. Hallux directed 

 inward as in Äpteryx, and with a com- 

 plete functional phalanx and claw. 

 Abdominal , ribs present. Lias to 

 Wealden ; Europe and North 

 America. 



Laelaps, Cope 

 (Dryptosaurus, 

 Marsh). Skull 

 and femur each 

 about 0'6 m. long; 

 prefrontal form- 

 ing a superciliary 

 c r e s t ; o r b i t 

 scarcely separated 

 from antorbital 

 vacuity. Teeth 

 and other char- 

 acters similar to 

 Megalosa^irus. 

 Upper Cretaceous; 

 Montana. 



Hypsirophus, 

 Cope ; Ornitho- 

 mimus, Marsh ; 

 Aublysodon, Coelo- 

 saurus, Leidy. 

 Known by frag- 



Allosmirus agilis 

 Restoration of anterior (A). 

 1/20 (after Marsh). 



Fig. 330. 

 Marsh. Upper Jura ; 



Colorado. 



and posterior (B), limbs, 



Fig. 831. 



Megalosmirnshncklandi, 

 V. Meyer. Bathonian ; 

 Stonesfield, England. 

 Tooth, i/i- 



mentary remains from the Upper Cretaceous of North America. 



Family 2. Oompsognathidae. Huxley. 



Vertebrae and limb bones hollow. Cervical vertehi'ae slightly opisthocoelous, post- 

 cervicals amphiplatyan. Neck long and flexible; cervical ribs styliform. Pubes 

 stout, ischia shorter and more slender. Femur shorter than tibia. Metatarsals 

 long ; manus and pes with three functional digits, the inner and outer ones rudi- 

 rnentary. Upper Jura. 



Compsognathus, Wagner (Figs. 332, 333). Represented by a unique 

 skeleton of a fully grown individual from the Lithographie Stone of Kelheim, 

 Bavaria, and preserved in the Munich Museum. It is the smallest known 

 Dinosaur, and interesting in that it contains an embryo within the abdomen, 

 first detected by Marsh. Skull bird-like, about 75 mm. long, its long axis 

 set at right angles to the relatijely long neck. The twenty-two presacral 

 vertebrae have a combined length of 20 cm., and the caudals, of which 

 only fifteen are preserved, measure about the same. Fore-limbs only half as 

 long as the hinder pair. Proximal tarsals tend to form with the tibia a bird- 

 like tibio-tarsus ; astragalus with long ascending process closely applied 



