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FOSSIL REPTILIA OF THE 



The fifth socket (<?), the forepart of which is preserved on the right side, 

 is four lines distant from the fourth. 



The thinness of the compact outer wall of this fragment of the upper jaw, and 

 the large size of the cancelli, concur with the dental characters in demonstrating 

 the Pterosaurian nature of the fossil. So far as the outer wall is preserved, 

 it shows no trace of the external nostril at a distance, viz., of three inches from 

 the forepart of the upper jaw. 



The tooth in place is sub-compressed, conical, long, and slightly curved, with 

 the convexity forward. The portion of enamel preserved on the crown accords 

 with the Pterosaurian type of tooth in its thinness, in the very delicate, irregularly 

 wavy, sometimes branching, longitudinal ridges, on its outer surface ; the dentine 

 is compact, and is coated by cement at the base of the tooth, 



Pterodactylus Woodwardi. Tab. II, figs. 3, a, b, c. 



The specimen from Professor Sedgwick's collection, represented of the natural 

 size in Tab. II, fig. 3, a, b, is a transverse fragment of the jaw of a Pterodactyle, 

 from the Upper Green-sand of Cambridgeshire, showing a greater divergence of 

 the side walls towards the alveolar or oral surface, and, consequently, greater 

 breadth of that surface in proportion to the height or vertical extent of the 

 part. Of the oral surface too small a portion is preserved to indicate whether it 

 be palatal or mandibular. By the characters of the median ridge or groove 

 pointed out in my former monograph, I incline to regard it as part of the 

 upper jaw, corresponding in the proportions of height and palatal breadth with 

 that of the Pterodactylus Fittoni (Tab. I, fig. 3, c , ' Monograph' for 1857), but 

 coming from a part of the jaw further from the anterior extremity. 



The fractured ends show the characteristic thinness of the compact, bony wall, 

 and the large (air-?) cells occupying its substance. 



The side wall, which is most entire, has been abraded (Tab. II, fig. 3, b), but 

 the small portions of the preserved surface exhibit the smooth character of 

 Pterosaurian bone. The fragment includes a pair of sockets, with the bases of 

 their teeth. The latter show the usual elliptical, transverse section (fig. 3, c). 

 The implanted base of the tooth extends three fourths of the way to the upper 

 border of the jaw ; it has a coat of cement half a line thick, with the outer surface 

 longitudinally ridged, corresponding with the grooves of the socket. The 

 direction of the socket shows that the tooth extended obliquely forwards and 

 outwards as well as downwards. 



Tab. IV, fig. 4, shows the part of the base and basal half of the crown of a tooth 

 of a Pterodactyle, from the Upper Green-sand of Cambridgeshire, a little sur- 

 passing in size that of which the base is shown implanted in the socket of the 



