ON 

 PETROPHRYNE GRANULATA Ow., 



a 



LABYRINTHODONT 



Reptile from the Trias of South Africa, with special compa- 

 rison of the skull with that of Bhinosaiirus Jasikovii Fisch. 



By 



Prof. Richard Oiven, С В., F. R. S., 



CorrespoDdiiig Member of the Imperial Society of Naturalists of 



Moscou etc. 



In the 'Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Natura- 

 listes de Moscou', tome XX, 1874, a distinguished Mem- 

 ber of the Society, Son Excellence G. Fischer de 

 Waldheim described and figured (PI. V) a fossil skull 

 of a Reptile, stated to have been found in the upper .Ju- 

 rassic deposits of Simbirsk. * To the species yielding the 

 skull the term Bhinosaurus Jasikovii is applied, in ho- 

 nour of its discoverer M. Pierre de Jasikow. 



The characters by which this fossil is distinguished 

 from Enaliosauria and Crocodilia are trulv and instruc- 



*) „Le crftne a été tiouvé dans les couches supérieures du Jura 

 de Simbirsk". Op. cit., p. 7.) 



