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length, we have for its ordinary measure thirty inches, and for the 

 whole animal 1 80. This would give for the average length of the 

 vertebrae, with the separate cartilage, two inches and a third. The 

 largest nearly-complete specimen of head in Mr. James Parker's 

 collection gives thirty-two inches; and the longest and largest 

 beak in the Oxford Museum indicates thirty-nine inches. Thus 

 the longest animal of which we have traces is 214 inches, = 17 

 feet 10 inches from the nose to the end of the tail, which is about 

 the size of the largest known crocodiles. 



The covering of this teleosaurus was a complete cuirass on the 

 body ; some of the scuta nearly rectangular and ridged across, others 

 more rounded, all deeply pitted. They are smooth within (Diagram 

 XLI. figs. 8, 9). 



A singular discovery was made some years since, in the Hare- 

 bushes Quarry, near Cirencester (Great oolite), of a group of oval 

 bodies filled with spar, which were, and I think rightly, judged 

 by Professor Buckman to be eggs of a reptile, and probably of 

 teleosaurus. They are smooth, 1-75 inches long, and ro inch 

 wide 2 . Other eggs, as I think them to be, of the appearance of 

 a thin brown irregularly-inflated tunic, occur at Stonesfield. 



TELEOSAURUS SUBULIDENS. 



Of this animal we possess a specimen of the very depressed 

 narrow lower jaw, with thirteen very slender awl-shaped teeth, 

 projecting laterally. 



Diagram LTV. End of Lower Jaw of Teleosaurus subulidens. 

 Scale four-tenths of nature. 



z Proceedings of the Geological Society, 1859. 



