XI. 



TELEOSAURUSTHE HEAD. 



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last, which are smaller and more closely set. The inner pair of 

 the front teeth is occasionally found large. The teeth behind the 

 captatorial pairs spring from narrow tracts much depressed below 

 the general internal floor of the jaw. They point a little forward 

 and are set with the convexity anterior; and of the two faintly- 

 marked carinse or lines of coalescing striae, one is posterior and 

 outward, the other anterior and inward. A diastema in each jaw 

 behind the canines. Six teeth in the lower jaw are behind the 



Diagram XL VI. Occipital views. Scale one-tenth of nature. 



I . Teleosaurus of Stonesfield and Enslow Bridge. 2. Gavial of the Ganges. 



3. Steneosaurus of Shotover from the Kimmeridge clay. 



symphysis ; seven or eight in the upper jaw behind the crossing 

 of the maxillary suture. 



The occipital aspect is represented in fig. i, Diagram XL VI., 

 in comparison with that of gavial, fig. 2, and steneosaurus, fig. 3. 

 The occipital condyle has a slight vertical groove, as in gavial, 

 not observed in our steneosaurus. The vertebral column is altogether 

 of crocodilian character. The cervicals of teleosaurus found at 

 Enslow Bridge, and represented in Diagram LVIIL, in comparison 

 with one of megalosaurus, are of two patterns once probably 



