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skeletons in the British Museum have not yet been named, I 

 shall follow the same course here, and content myself with the 

 generic identification. 



When the Peterborough specimens are investigated it will 

 doubtless be found that the Dorsetshire crocodile is specifically 

 the same ; and the record of its occurrence may be of some value 

 from a distributional point of view. Not improbably the English 

 Oxfordian form will be found inseparable from one of those 

 already named on the Continent. 



It may be added that two species of this genus have already 

 been recorded from Dorsetshire by Mr. Hulke. These are 

 Stmeosaurus stephani * from the Cornbrash of Closworth, and 

 S. megarhinus \ from the Kimmeridge Clay of Kimmeridge Bay, 

 the latter being incorrectly referred to Peleosaurus. \ The type 

 specimen of neither of these admits of comparison with the 

 remains from Chickerell, although their different geological 

 horizons are probably indicative of specific distinction. 



* Proc. Dorset Field Club, Vol. I., p. 29 (1877). 

 f Quart. Journ. Geo. Soc., Vol. XXVIL, p. 442 (1871). 

 % See Lydekker, Cat. Foss. Kept., Brit. Mus., pt. i., p. 117. 



