DESCRIPTION OF THE FAUNA. 



VERTEBRATA. 

 Class REPTILIA. 



The remains of reptiles from the Cornbrasli are not numerous, the rubbly 

 nature of the deposit not being suitable for their preservation. The following 

 is a list of the records of this class that have hitherto been made. 1 



* Gimoliosaurus brevior. * Steneosaurus st&phani (48). 



*Megalosaurus bucklandi (02). *Teleosaurus subulidens (39). 



* 'Steneosaurus boutilieri (37). 



Gimoliosaurus brevior. — The entry of this Kimeridgian type of Plesiosaur 

 as a Cornbrasli fossil seems to have originated in an error. The name is 

 entered as Kimeridgian in Lydekker's ' Catalogue of the Fossil Reptilia, etc.,' 

 Pt. II, p. 243, and on the same page are entered some vertebras as " specifically 

 indeterminate," one of them being stated to be from the Cornbrasli of Stilton ; 

 but the two entries have no connection with each other. 



Megalosaurus buclclandi. — In the British Museum, No. 47,1 69, there is a 

 trunk vertebra said to be " from the Cornbrasli, locality unknown." It is " pro- 

 visionally " referred to this species (see Lydekker, ' Cat. Foss. Rept.,' Pt. I, 

 p. 161). It has no matrix and the only guide to its origin is that it formed 

 part of the Sharp collection. This is not considered sufficient authority for 

 the horizon of the fossil being Cornbrasli. 



Steneosaurus boutilieri. — With regard to this name we have the following 

 information (A. S. Woodward, ' Geol. Mag.,' Dec. 3, vol. ii, p. 501, note): 

 " Under this name M. Deslongchamps (' Notes Paleont.,' p. 230, pi. xvi, fig. 2) 

 mentions a plaster cast of a skull and mandible from the Cornbrasli near Oxford 

 received from the Bristol Institution, and labelled Crocodilus ovconieusis Cony- 

 beare. . . . But Mr. Edward Wilson ... is unable to discover any such 

 label in the collection and the present whereabouts of the original specimen 

 seems to be unknown." Nor is it mentioned under either name in Phillips' 



1 In the following lists an asterisk denotes that the name is included in either or both of the 

 lists given by H. B. Woodward and Fox-Strangways in the ' Mem. Geol. Surv.' The numbers in 

 brackets refer to the foregoing list of publications. Names printed in capitals denote those which 

 are adopted, those in italics those which are rejected. 



