4 Prof. 0. C. Marsh — European Dinosaurs. 



carnivorous Dinosaurs are bipedal, and this is true of the footprints 

 of many herbivorous forms. 



In the present restoration of Compsognathna (Plate I) I have 

 tried to represent the animal as walking, in a characteristic and 

 lifelike position. 



Fig 1. — Sketch of Oompsognathus longipes, Wagner. One-seventh natural t-ize. 



(After Huxley.) 



Scelidosaurus. Page 5 (Plate II). 



The second of these restorations is that of Scelidosaurus ITarrisonii, 

 of Owen, shown one-eighteenth natural size on p. 5 (Plate II). This 

 reptile was an herbivorous Dinosaur of moderate size, related to 

 Stegosaurus, and was its predecessor from a lower geological horizon 

 in England. This restoration is essentially based upon the original 

 description and figures of Owen (Palaeontographical Society, 1861). 

 These have been supplemented by my own notes and sketches, 

 made during examinations of the type specimen, now in the British 

 Museum. 



Scelidosaurus is a near relative, as it were, of one of our American 

 forms, Stegosaurus, now represented by so many specimens that we 

 know the skull, skeleton, and dermal armour with much certainty. 

 The English form known as Omosaurus is still more nearly allied to 

 Stegosaurus, perhaps identical. 



A restoration of the skeleton of Scelidosnurus, by Dr. Henry 

 Woodward, will be found in the British Museum Guide to Geology 

 and Palaeontology, 1890, p. 19. The missing parts are restored 

 from Iguanodon, and the animal is represented as bipedal, as in 

 that genus. 



In the present outline restoration of Scelidosaurus, I have en- 

 deavoured merely to place on record my idea of the form and 

 position of the skeleton, when the animal was alive, based on the 

 remains I have myself examined. In case of doubt, as, for example, 

 in regard to the front of the skull, which is wanting in the type 



