PTERODACTYLID^, 



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A large species, with the narial aperture and preorbital vacuity 

 entirely confluent; the length of the cranium is 0,215; the teeth 

 are short and stout, and extend unusually far back, reaching in 

 the upper jaw nearly to the middle of the narial aperture ; the 

 cervical vertebrae are comparatively thick. 



Hah. Europe (Germany). 



37363-4. Two casts of a split slab of lithographic limestone, show- 

 ing the greater portion of the skeleton. The original was 

 obtained from the Kimeridgian of Daiting, Bavaria, and 

 is the type of the species ; it is figured by Wagner in the 

 ' Abh. k.-bay, Ak. Wiss/ vol. vi. pt. i. pi. v. 



Purchased, 1863. 



Pterodactylus longicollum, Meyer 1 . 



Syn. Diopecephalus longicollum, Seeley 2 . 



A species of large size, but smaller than the preceding, with the 

 narial aperture and preorbital vacuity entirely confluent ; the length 

 of the cranium is 0,145 ; the teeth are slender, and those of the 

 upper jaw do not extend posteriorly to within a considerable dis- 

 tance of the narial aperture. 



Bab. Europe (Germany). 



37990. Cast of a slab of lithographic limestone, showing a con- 

 siderable portion of the skeleton. The original is from 

 the Kimeridgian of Eichstadt, Bavaria ; and is figured by 

 Meyer in the 'Eauna der Yorwelt — Eept. Lith. Schiefer,' 

 pi. vii. figs. 1-3. Purchased, 1862. 



37990 a. Two casts of a split slab of lithographic limestone, show- 

 ing some of the bones of the fore limb and pes of a Ptero- 

 dactyle referred by Meyer to the present species. The 

 original is from the Kimeridgian of Bavaria ; and is figured 

 by Meyer, op. cit. pi. vii. fig. 4. Purchased, L862. 



Genus CYCNORHAMPHUS, 



Rostrum elongated and expanded into a broad, swan-like beak, 

 with the teeth confined to its extremity ; neck long ; and (according 

 to Seeley) the pubis of either side meeting in a bony symphysis. 

 As mentioned by Zittel, the characters of the nares as given by 

 Seeley require modification. 



1 Neues Jahrb. 1854, p. 52. 



2 Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 4, vol. vii. p. 35 (1871). 



3 ' Onitkosauria/ p. Ill (1870). 



