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CROCODILIA. 



36398. Slab with part of a large crushed bone. 



Presented by J. Taylor, Esq., 1859, 



36399. Slab showing the inner surface and part of the impression 



of the outer surface of a small scute, and the impression 

 of a bone (? femur). Same history. 



R. 581. Cast of a slab showing the distal two thirds of the left 

 humerus. The original is preserved in the Museum at 

 Elgin, and is figured by Huxley, op. cit. pi. vii. fig. 7 

 (reversed). Presented by Sir B. Owen, K.G.B., 1884. 



Family PARASUCHID^]. 



No descending portion in the basioccipital and basisphenoid ; other 

 cranial characters unknown. 



Genus PARASUCHUS, Huxley 1 . 

 The only known genus. 



Parasuchus hislopi, Lydekker 2 (ex Huxley, MS.) 



The type and only known species. The description of the com- 

 plete skeleton of Hyperodapedon by Huxley 3 , together with the 

 probable presence of a clavicle in Phytosaurus, renders it most 

 likely that the appendicular bones provisionally referred by the 

 writer 4 to Hyperodapedon really belong to the present form. 



Hab. India. 



R. 1097- Cast of the conjoint basioccipital and basisphenoid. The 

 original, which is one of the types, was obtained from the 

 Maleri beds (Lower Mesozoic) of the Gondwana system 

 at Maleri, near Sironcha, Central Provinces, India, and is 

 preserved in the Indian Museum, Calcutta ; it is figured 

 by the present writer in the * Palaeontologia Indica,' 

 ser. 4, vol. i. pt. 5, pi. iii. figs. 1, 1 a, 1 b. 



Presented by the Director of 

 the Geological Survey of India, 1887. 



1 Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. vol. xxvi. p. 49 (1870). 



2 Eec. Geol. Surv. Ind. vol. xvi. p. 86 (1883). 



3 Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. vol. xliii. p. G75 (1887). Vide infra. 



4 •Palaeontologia Indica' (Mem. Geo], Surv. Ind.), ser. iv. vol. i. pt. 5, 

 pL iv. (1885). 



