ORDER VIII 



DINOSAURIA 223 



found a few detactied crocodilian vertebrae of the procoelous type, but it is 

 not until the Upper Cretaceous that typical Eusuchia with extended secondary 

 palate and closed eustachian passages become dominant. The Eusuchia, 

 like their Jurassic forerunners, comprise both long- snouted and broad- 

 snouted genera, but whether the gavials were derived independently from the 

 modern crocodiles and alligators, or all are traceable to a common Mesosuchian 

 ancestor, is still uncertain. During the Tertiary, alligators and crocodiles 

 prevailed both in Europe and North America, only becoming extinct in Europe 

 during the Pliocene. The alligators, which appear to have surpassed crocodiles 

 in the Old World, and to have been inferior to them in number in the New, 

 are now restricted to the warmer regions of North America. Remains of both 

 gavials and crocodiles occur in the Tertiary of India, among which are com- 

 prised the most gigantic members of the order (Rhamphosuchus). 



Order 8. DINOSAURIA. Owen.^ 



[Pachypodes, Owen; Ornifhoscelida, Huxley.) 



Long-necked and long-tailed reptiles, usually of considerable and sometimes of 

 gigantic size, with limbs adapted for habitual support of the body. Investing bones 

 of the temporal region of the skull contracting into an upper and a lower temporal 

 arcade, and the large quadrate firmly fixed. No p)ineal foramen. Teeth thecodont, 

 confined to margin of the jaw-bones. Vertebrae opisthocoelous or amphiplatyan, rarely 

 amphicoelous, sometimes hollow or with deep lateral cavities ; sacrum comprising from 

 two to ten anchylosed vertebrae. Bibs dmible-headed. Sternum incompletely ossified, 

 clavicles and precoracoid ctbsent. Scaptola very large, sometimes cobssified with the 

 'perforate and anteriorly rounded coracoid. All three pelvic elements entering the aceta- 

 bulum. Ilium large, antero-posteriorly extended. Ischia usually slender and elongated, 

 frequently united in a median symphysis. Pubis directed doivnwards and forwards, 

 sometimes developing a postpubic process extending backwards piarallel with the ischium . 

 Fore-limbs shorter than the hinder pair ; progression very commonly bipedal. 



The order Dinosauria comprises Mesozoic reptiles which are extremely 

 varied in organisation, and exhibit a number of rhynchocephalian, crocodilian, 

 lacertilian, and even ornithic characters, the latter due chiefly to homoplastic 

 or parallel development. Among the latter, as first noticed by Gegenbaur, 



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 tlie Eeptiles generally called Dinosauria (Anier. Nat. vol. XXV. p. 434), 1891. — Cf^je, E. I)., 

 Palaeoutological Bulletins Nos. 22-28, in Proc. Auier. Phil. See. 1876-77. — JJollo, L., Notes sur les 

 Dinosauriens de Bernissart (Bull. Mus. d'Hist. Nat. Belg. vols. T.-IIL), 1882-84.— i/w^fe, J. W., 

 Presidential Addresses (Quar. .Journ. Geol. Soe. vols. XXXIX., XL.), 1883-84.— ^»aj%, T. //., On 

 the Animals which are most nearly intermediate between birds and Dinosaurs (Proc. Roy. Soc. 

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 U.S. Geol. Surv.), 1896. — Mehnert, E., Untersuchungen uber die Entwickelung des os j^i-ihis der 

 Vogel (Morph. Jahrb. vol. XIII. p. 239), 1888.— Os&orre, B. F., Dinosaur Contributions Nos. 1-3 in 

 Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. vols. X.-XIL, and Memoirs, vol. I. pt. 5, 1898-99. — Reconsideration of 

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