128 CROCODILIA. 



38088. A dorsal scute, probably from the anterior part of the 



buckler. Purchased, 1867. 



38089. Three similar dorsal scutes. Same history. 



38090. Several imperfect dorsal scutes. Same history. 



42748. A broken nodule containing a similar scute. 



Van Breda Collection. 



42748 a. An imperfect dorsal scute. Same history. 



Phytosaurus plieningeri (Meyer 1 ). 



Syn. Belodon plieningeri, Meyer 2 . 



Distinguished from the preceding by the cranial rostrum being 

 shallow vertically, by the more slender and less expanded mandible, 

 the relatively smaller teeth, and the generally smaller and lighter 

 structure of the whole skull. Number of teeth 3 gy. 



Hah. Europe (Germany). 



42745. The nearly entire cranium ; from the Keuper (Upper 

 {Fig.) Triassic) Sandstone of Stuttgart, Wiirtemberg. Described 



and figured by Meyer in the ' Palaeontographica,' vol. xiv. 



p. 104, pis. xxiv.-xxvi. 



Van Breda Collection. Purchased, 1871. 



38038. The right ramus of the mandible, containing most of the 

 {Fig.) teeth; from the Keuper of Stuttgart. Described and 

 figured by Meyer, op. cit. p. 100, pi. xxiii. 



Purchased, 1864. 



Genus STAGONOLEPIS, Agassiz 4 . 



A ventral armour; skull apparently like that of Phytosaurus; 

 teeth blunt and swollen ; sculpture of scutes more distinctly pitted. 

 Made by some writers the type of a distinct family — Stagono- 



1 Neues Jahrb. 1842, p. 302.— Belodon. 



2 Loc. cit. 



3 The great discrepancy in the number of the upper and lower teeth in the 

 two known entire specimens indicates the probability of individual variation 

 in this respect. 



4 'Kecherches sur les Poissons Fossiles du Vieux Gres-Kouge,' p. 139 (1844), 



