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CROCODIUA. 



Tomistoma champsoides (Owen 1 ). 



Syn. Melitosaurus champsoides, Owen 2 . 



Larger than the preceding, with the same number of premaxillary 

 teeth, but with no expansion of the premaxillse ; orbit unknown. 

 Hah. Europe (Malta). 



41151. The anterior portion of the cranium and mandible, together 

 (Fig.) with a detached fragment of the mandible; from the 



Miocene of Malta. This specimen is the type, and is 

 described and figured by the writer in the ' Quart. Journ. 

 Geol. Soc' vol. xlii. p. 21, pi. ii. (1886). 



Presented by Captain Strickland, 1868. 



41152. Three imperfect vertebras associated with the preceding. 



Same history. 



Tomistoma (?) macrorhynchus (Blainville 3 ). 



Syn. Crocodilus macrorhynchus, Blainville 4 . 

 Crocodilus isorhynchus, Pomel \ 

 Garialis macrorhynchus, Gervais 6 . 

 Thoracosaurus macrorhynchus, Leidy ? . 



According to the figure given by Gervais 9 the premaxillae reach 

 the nasals, but do not interlock with them as in the three preceding 

 species ; and since the supratemporal fossae are relatively larger than 

 in T. eggenburgense, this species would seem to connect the latter 

 with Garialis. 



Hah. Europe (France). 



28296. Several teeth ; from the Upper Cretaceous Pisolite of Mont 

 Aime (Marne), France. Purchased, 1851. 



28296 a. Several vertebral centra ; from the same locality. 



Same history. 



28296 b. Three specimens of the distal extremity of the femur ; 

 from the same locality. Same history. 



1 Hulke, Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. vol. xxvii. p. 31 (1871). — Melitosaurus. 

 a Loc. cit. 



3 Osteographie — Genus Crocodilus, pi. vi. (before 1848). — Crocodilus. 



4 Loc. cit. 



* Arch. Sci. Phys. Nat. vol. v. p. 303 (1847). 



8 Zool. et Pal. Francaises, 1st ed. p. 252 (1848-52). 

 7 Smiths. Contrib. Knowl. vol. xiv. art. 6, p. 11 (1865). 



* Op. cit. pi. lix. 



