GONIOPHOLIDID^. 7 / 



Hylseo champ sa vectiana, Owen 1 . 



The type species ; probably about 2 metres in total length ; orbits 

 subcircular, with a slightly outward direction; cranial sculpture 

 radiate ; posterior nares rounded and placed close to condyle : palato- 

 pterygoid vacuities narrow and elongate. 



Hal. Europe (England). 



R. 177. The hinder portion of the cranium : from the Wealden of 

 (Fig.) Brook, Isle of Wight. This specimen is the type, and 

 is figured by Owen in his ' Wealden and Purbeck Eep- 

 tilia' (Mon. Pal. Soc), suppl. v. pi. ii. figs. 23-25. 



Fox Collection. Purchased, 1882. 



Genus non. clet. 



The following specimen is too imperfect to admit of generic iden- 

 tification, but it may be identical with Bemissartia. The scutes 

 have no peg-and-socket articulation. 



37712. A split slab containing fragments of the exo- and endo- 

 (Fig.) skeleton of a small Crocodilian: from the Wealden of 

 Hastings, Sussex. Figured by Owen in his ' Cretaceous 

 Eeptilia ' (Mon. Pal. Soc), pi. xv. (1851), and referred to 

 by A. Smith Woodward in ' Proc. Geol. Assoc' vol. ix. 

 p. 328, as Crococlilus sauli, Owen. 



Saul Collection. Purchased, 1863. 



Subfamily Goniopholidin^. 



Posterior nares placed more anteriorly than in preceding sub- 

 family ; two rows of dorsal scutes ; ventral buckler divided, with 

 the transverse rows of scutes articulating in the posterior part by 

 suture. 



a. BBEVIBOSTBTNE SECTION. 



Cranium more or less short, with its alveolar borders festooned ; 

 nasals reaching premaxillse, and frequently the nares ; mandibular 

 symphysis short, without or with small splenial element. Teeth 

 not numerous, and more or less differentiated. Dorsal scutes with 

 peg-and-socket articulation. 



Genus THERIOSUCHUS, Owen 2 . 

 Cranium very short ; nasals reaching and partly dividing nares ; 

 orbit slightly larger than supratemporal fossa ; no vacuity in 



1 Wealden and Purbeck Reptilia (Mon. Pal. Soc*.). suppl vi. p. .1 (1874), 

 a Tbirl. suppl. ix. p. 10 (1879). 



