ORDER YII 



CROCODILIA 



213 



Skull attaining a length of 1 m., 



The members of this family closely resemble modern gavials in size and 

 general appearance, except that they have smaller heads 

 and more weakly developed fore -limbs. The principal 

 differences are to be found in the characters of the palate, 

 eustachian passages, vertebral centra, ventral armour, and 

 absence of hypapophyses in the cervical region. 



Mysfriosaurtis, Kauj). 

 and total length upwards of 6 m. Snout 

 gradually tapering ; orbits superiorly fk^. 313. 



directed. Teeth implanted nearly ver- veiagosaurus teiwporaiu, 



. ,, . , . 1 •' . Blv. sp. Upper Lias; 



ticallv, with anterior and posterior curcy, Caivados. Pos- 

 carin^e. Known by complete skeletons gVpi-^'mesLchi:,; 

 from the Upper Lias of Wiirtemberg, P?iate> 1/2- J'o, Basioc- 



. ^ '■. ^ , P' eipital ; c/i., Internal nares ; 



rrancoma, and England. M. ooUensts, j, Jugai ; wx, Maxilla ; pi, 



r^ ■ TIT 7 . jr- • Palatine; pt, Pteryaoid ; 



Cuvier ; M. chapmani, Konig. ,«, Quadrate! 



Fir;. 314. 



TeleosoAirus cadcmensis, Cuvier sp. Bathonian ; Caen, Calvados. A, Palatal ; B, liateral ; C, Superior aspects 

 of skull. Z>, Mandible. ^4, Orbit ; ang, Angnlnv ; «ri, Articular ; 60, Basioccipital ; bsp/t, Basisphenoid ; ch, 

 Internal nares ; D, Mandibular vacuity ; d, Dentary ; /r, Frontal ; la, Lachrymal ; du', Maxilla ; na, Nasal ; op, 

 Splenial ; pa, Parietal ; pi, Palatine ; pynx, Premaxilla ; prf. Prefrontal ; q'u. Quadrate ; quj, Quadrato-jugal ; 

 .S', Suprateniporal vacuity ; 6", Lateral temporal vacuity ; sr/,' Squamosal ; t, Transverse (ectopterygoid) ; x, Sur- 

 angular (after E. Deslongchamps). 



