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THE BATH OOLITE PERIOD. 



CHAP. 



TESTUDO STRICKLANDI. Phil 



The scales represented in the Diagram, No. XLI. figs. 10, n, 

 are selected as median scales of the one species of tortoise found 

 in the Stonesfield beds. Only scales, and these separate, have yet 

 been noticed, if we except a very short phalangal bone which may 

 have belonged to the fore foot. Professor Owen notices these 



Diagram XLI. Scales and Scutes (Stonesfield). 



i. Ctenolepis cyclus. Ag. The external aspect with striated surface shewn in the 

 middle, at the sides the interior concentric lines of bone, above the radiated impression 

 of the lower and forward surface of the scale. 2. The radiated striation on the 



external face. 3. The concentric striation. 4. Small scale suppoaed to be of the 

 same species. 5. Lepidotus unguiculatus. Ag. 6. Another scale. 7. Another 

 large unguiculate scale. 8. Scute from the side of Teleosaurus brevidens; 



external aspect. 9. Interior of the same. 10. Scute from the middle dorsal 



row of Testudo Stricklandi outside. u. Another also from the middle row, seen 

 on the inner side. 



remains in his Report on Fossil Reptiles to the British Association, 

 1841. In his opinion they probably belong to a terrestrial species 

 of ordinary size say ten inches in length. Mr. H. E. Strickland 

 took some pains to collect these scutes, of which the Oxford 

 Museum possesses a good series. 



