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THE BATH OOLITE PERIOD. 



CHAP. 



The neural canal small, oval, transverse ; the zygapophysial surfaces 

 are oval, plane, and inclined to one another 50, and placed close 

 above the neural canal. The sides are as it were pressed inward ; 

 the prominent surfaces of attachment for the rib are directly over 

 one another, the upper one inclined downward, as in some steneo- 



Diagram LVIII. Cervical Vertebrae of Teleosaurus and Megalosaurus. 

 Scale four-tenths of nature. 



i. Teleosaurus subulidens, seen sideways. 2. The same, seen endways 



(from the head). 3. The same, seen from below. 4. Megalosaurus seen on 



the left side ; the zygapophysis represented is on the right side. 5. The same, 

 seen endways (from the head). 6. The same, seen from below. 7. Teleosaurus 

 brevidens, seen sideways. 8. The same, seen endways. 9. The same, seen 



from below. 



sauri and teleosauri. The lower side, widest anteriorly, is bluntly 

 carinated behind. The articulating faces are slightly concave in 

 the middle, rounded and revolute towards the circumference. The 

 posterior and lower margin projects as if to indicate an upward 

 curve in the neck, as in some mammals and many birds. 



