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APPENDIX. 
Art. LIX.—Notice of New Fossil Reptiles ; by Professor 
O. C. Marsu. 
lent preservation, and among them are several genera, having 
the more important characters of the Rhynchocephala, of which 
Central ossifications apparently exist in all the Reptilia yet 
found in this new fauna, and hence serve to distinguish it. 
With this character is another of hardly less interest. The 
anterior rib-bearing vertebre preserved have three separate 
tubercle. In the implantation of the teeth and their succes- 
sional development, these Reptiles resemble the Mosasuria. 
Am. Jour. Sot.—Tarrp Series, Vou. XV, No. 89.—Mar, 1878. 
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