498 Arthur Smith Woodward — British Fossil CrocodiUa. 



1877, and it has not been recorded from any but one Scotcli locality. 

 Belodon had a much wider range, having been found in Wiirtemburg,^ 

 India,- and NorthAmerica ; ^ and Farasiichiis * is a more generalized 

 crocodilian from India. 



Jurassic Crocodilia. 



The Lower Lias has not hitherto yielded any fossils of this order ; 

 but in the higher beds of Whitby, and their Continental equivalents, 

 abundant remains of Teleosaurs are continually discovered, and 

 numerous remarkably perfect skeletons and skulls are to be found in 

 ■various museums. The earliest specimen made known to science 

 was figured and described by Chapman and Wooller in the " Philo- 

 sophical Transactions" so long ago as 1758,^ and the authors of these 

 quaint communications perceived the general resemblance of their 

 fossil in outward shape to that of the living Gavials and Alligators, 

 thus suggesting an affinity : but none received a name imtil the 

 publication of the Bridgewater Treatise, in which Buckland devoted 

 a plate ® to the illustration of three typical examples, and referred 

 them all to an undefined species, Teleosaurus Chapmani, Konig MS. 

 Five years later, in his second Eeport on British Fossil Eeptiles read 

 before the British Association,' Prof. (Sir Kichard) Owen gave a 

 detailed account of the specimen represented in fig. 1 of Buckland's 

 plate just quoted, and subsequently attached the MS. name of T. 

 brevier to a fine skull in the British Museum ; in 1854:, Mr. Charles- 

 worth ^ brought forward evidence of possibly another form, terming 

 it T. ischnodon, but publishing no definition ; in 1861, Owen's 

 " Palaeontology " appeared, with the figure of a detached vertebra 

 designated T. brevirostris ; ^ in 1876, Prof. J. F. Blake '" described 

 Owen's (MS.) T. brevier under the name of Steneesaurus brevier ; in 

 1880, Prof. H. G. Seeley '^ applied the provisional name of T. 

 eiicephalus to a fragmentary skull — also from Whitby — in the Wood- 

 wardian Museum, Cambridge ; and quite lately, in his " History of 



^ H. von Meyer, loc. cit. 



2 E. Lydekker, "The Reptilia and Amphibia of the Maleri and Denwa Groups," 

 Palseontologia Indica, ser. iv. vol. i. pt. 5 (1885). 



2 E. D. Cope, "On the Reptilia of the Triassic Formations of the Atlantic Region 

 of the United States," Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc. vol. xi. (1871), pp. 444-446 (reprinted 

 in Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., [4] vol. vi. pp. 498-500). 



* R. Lydekker, loc. cit. 



5 William Chapman, "An Account of the Fossile Bones of an Allegator. found on 

 the Sea-shore, near Whitby, in Yorkshire," Phil. Trans., vol 50, pp. 688-9, pi. 

 xxii. {b), and Wooller, " A Description of the Fossil Skeleton of an Animal foimd 

 in the Alum Rock near Whitby," ibid., pp. 786-790, pi. xxx. This specimen was 

 presented to the Royal Society, and is now in the British Museum. 



6 Rev. W. Buckland, "Geology and Mineralogy, etc.," vol. ii. p. 35, pi. 25. An 

 early figure of a skull from Whitby is also given by E. Charlesworth, in "Mag. Nat. 

 Hist.," U.S., vol. i. (1837), p. 632, fig. 65. 



' British Association Reports, 1841, pp. 73-81. 



s E. Charlesworth, British Association Reports, 1854, Trans. Sections, p. 80. 



9 R. Owen, " Palaeontology," 2nd edit., p. 299, fig. 103 [1]. 



10 R. Tate and J. F. Blake, "The Yorkshire Lias " (1876), p. 244, pi. i. figs. 1-3. 



11 H. G. Seeley, " On the Cranial Characters of a large Teleosaur from the Whitby 

 Lias," Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc, vol. xxxvi. (1880), pp. 627-634, pi. xxiv. 



