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KEPTILTA. 



No. 297. Andrias Scheuchzeri, Tscirudj. 



Skeleton, on slab. This noted fossil — the Cryp- 

 tobrancTms of Van der Hoeven — was a Batrachian of 

 the Salamander family. It was a large specimen 

 of this extinct animal which was erroneously sup- 

 posed by Scheuchzer to be a human skeleton, and 

 was described by him nearly a century and a half ago 

 as " Homo dilumi testis." Cuvier demonstrated its near 

 affinities to the Water-Salamander (Menopoma) of the 

 United States. This specimen consists of the crani-. 

 urn, vertebral column with ribs, the four extremities, 

 and vestiges of the tail. It was obtained from the 

 Miocene lacustrine deposits at OEningen, Switzerland, 

 and is in the British Museum. 



Size, 3 ft. x 8 in. Price, $5.00. 



No. 298, Andrias Tschudi, Meyer. 



Skeleton, on slab. From the Brown Coal (Miocene) at Rott, Rhine Valley, 

 and now in the Tylerian Museum at Haarlem, Holland. 



Size, 13x5. Price, $1.00. 



No. 299. Rana diluviana, Goldf. 



Skeleton, on slab. This specimen, now in 

 the Ward Museum of the University of Roches- 

 ter, was found in the Tertiary lignite of the "' Sie- 

 bengebirge," near Bonn, Rhine Valley. 



Size, 7x5. Price, $1.00. 



No. 300. Rana dilnviana, Goidf. 



Skeleton, on slab. From the same locality and Museum as preceding. 

 - T 0/M _, . Size, 6x5. Price, $1.00. 



No. 301. Sauropus pnmaevus, Lea. — ■ 



Tracks, on slab. 

 These reptilian footprints 

 were discovered in 1849 in 

 formation of red shales, at 

 the base of the Coal Meas- 

 ures, near Pottsville,Penn. 

 The animal appears to 

 have had five toes on its 

 fore-feet, and four toes on 

 the hind-pair ; longer legs 

 than the Crocodile, there 

 being no trace of the drag- 

 ging of the feet ; and a 



