106 CROCODILIA. 



Pelagosaurus typus, Bronn \ 



Syn. Steneosaurus bronni, Laurillard 2 . 



Mosellosaurus rostro-minor, Mohard 3 . 

 Crocodilus temporalis, Blainville 4 . 

 Teleosaurus mosellana, Terquem 5 . 

 Teleosaurus temporalis, Gervais 6 . 



Of small size, measuring from 1 metre to 1*20 in length. Rostrum 

 comparatively short, sculpture on cranium (fig. 15) strongly marked; 

 orbits extremely lateral ; teeth — , very nearly vertical, and widely 

 spaced ; preorbital vacuity of medium size, and placed at some dis- 

 tance in advance of the orbit. Length of cranium 0,280. 



Hab. Europe. 



15296. Cast of the nearly entire skeleton. The original, which is 

 the type, was obtained from the Upper Lias of Boll, 

 Wiirtemberg, and is figured in Bronn and Kaup's ' Gavial- 

 artigen Reptilien,' pis. iii., iii. a, iii. b. 



Purchased. About 1840. 



19735. Cast of the skull and anterior cervical vertebrae. The ori- 

 ginal is from Boll, and is figured by D 'Alton and Bur- 

 meister in their 'Fossile Gavial von Boll,' pi. xi. and 

 pi. xii. fig. 1. A similar cast is apparently the one re- 

 ferred to by Deslongchamps in his ' Notes Paleontologiques,' 

 p. 263. Same history. 



R. 1087. Cast of the entire endo- and exoskeleton. The original 

 was obtained from the Upper Lias of Curcy (Calvados), 

 France, and is preserved in the Paris Museum of Natural 

 History. Purchased. 



14437. The imperfect hinder portion of the cranium, with the 

 outer surface of the bones much corroded ; from the Upper 

 Lias, probably of Whitby, Yorkshire. No history. 



32598. The nearly entire vertebral column with the overlying 



{Fig.) dermal scutes ; from Curcy. Figured by Deslongchamps 



in the ' Mem. Soc. Linn. Normandie,' vol. xii. pi. vii., and 



1 Gavialartigen Reptilien, p. 28 (1841). 



2 Diet. Univ. Hist. Nat. vol. iv. p. 365 (1841). 



3 Ann. Soc. R. Sci. Orleans, vol. ix. p. 1 (1847). 



4 Osteographie — Genus Crocodilus, pi. vi. (no date). 



5 Paleontologie de la Moselle, p. 22 (1855). 



6 Zool. et Pal. Franchises, 2nd ed. p. 449 (1859). 



