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ON DASYCEPS BUCKLAND! 
(Labyrinthodon Bucklandi, Lloyd). 
Memoirs of the Geological Survey of the United Kingdom 18509, pp. §2—56. 
AT the meeting of the British Association in 1849 Dr. Lloyd, to 
whom science is so much indebted, as the collector and preserver of 
almost all the known remains of British Labyrinthodonts, gave a 
description and exhibited a lithographic drawing of a “new species of 
Labyrinthodon from the New Red Sandstone of Warwickshire.” An 
abstract of the description, without the figure, is published in the 
Reports of the British Association for 1849, p. 56; but it is very brief, 
the most important points being the indication of “ projecting occipital 
condyles,” and the statement that the teeth presented “the usual 
characters of the genus.” The fossil, which is named by Dr. Lloyd 
Labyrinthodon Bucklandi, is said to have been derived from the 
“ Bunter sandstone,” but the locality is not given. 
In the course of a hasty visit to the Warwick Museum during the 
past winter (1858), I was struck with the remarkable appearance of 
this fine fossil, and I saw at once that it was generically distinct from 
any known Labyrinthodont. Hence, having occasion to refer to it 
incidentally in a paper which I read before the Geological Society in 
March last, I proposed a distinct generic name, Vasyceps, for it ; but 
I was not at that time aware of the fact that the quarry at Kenilworth, 
whence the fossil was obtained, is not situated in the Bunter at all, 
but in rocks of Permian age. The knowledge of this circumstance 
lent additional interest to the inquiry into the precise characters of 
Dasyceps, which I undertook during a recent repetition of my visit to 
the excellent Museum at Warwick, where this and so many other 
important remains are stored up. 
The flat cranium, which is 10 inches in length from the middle of 
