TELEEPETID^. 295 



Genus TELERPETON, Mantell \ 



The type genus. 



Telerpeton elginense, Mantell 2 . 

 The type species. Length of skull about 0,043. 

 Hah. Europe (Englaud). 



28244. Cast of a slab of sandstone, showing the greater part of the 

 skeleton, with the exception of the skull. The original 

 was obtained from the Keuper (Upper Trias) of Moray- 

 shire. It is preserved in the Museum at Elgin, and is 

 figured by Mantell in the 'Quart. Journ.Geol. Soc' vol. viii. 

 pi. iv. Another specimen, in which the impression of 

 the skull is preserved, is described and figured by Huxley 

 in vol. xxiii. pp. 77-84 of the same serial. 



Presented by Dr. G. A. Mantell, 1852. 



Genus SAUROSTERNUM, Huxley *. 

 Syn. BatracTiosaurus, Owen 4 (ex Bain, MS.). 



Very imperfectly known ; but regarded by its founder as being 

 probably allied to Telerpeton, and therefore provisionally placed in 

 the same family. It has been referred by Owen 4 to the Labyrintho- 

 dontia. 



Saurosternum baini, Huxley 5 . 



The type species. 

 Hab. South Africa. 



R. 1234. A split slab of rock showing the impression of the skeleton, 



(Fig.) without the skull ; from the Karoo system of the Sniew- 



berg Range, South Africa. The type. Described and 



figured by Huxley in the ' Geol. Mag.' scr. 1, vol. v. p. 201, 



pi. xi. Presented by A. 0. Bain, Esq. 



R. 1235. Fragment of rock showing the imperfect skull, the cervical 

 (Fi</.) vertebra?, and the interclavicle ; from the Sniewberg. 



1 Quart, Joura. Geol. Soc. vol. viii. p. 100 (1852). 



2 Lor. Git. 



3 Geol. Mag. scr. 1, vol. v. p. 201 (1868).— Amended. 

 1 Cat Fobs. Kept. S. Africa, p. 69 (1876). 



5 Loc. cit. 



