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ANOMODONTIA. 



Genus TAPINOCEPHALUS, Owen*. 



Syn. (?) Phocosaurus, Seeley 2 . 



The type genus ; founded upon the imperfect cranial muzzle, 

 with which a vertebra and tibia were apparently associated. No 

 tusks in upper jaw; muzzle of cranium forming a depressed rounded 

 projection, above which the frontal region probably rose suddenly ; 

 apparently no secondary posterior nares. Lumbar vertebra (fig. 1 8) 



Kg. 17. 



(?) Tapinoc&phalus at her stonei.— "Reversed view of the left side of the pelvis, 

 with the ischium restored ; from the Karoo system of the Cape Colony. 

 •£-. il, ilium ; pb, pubis ; is, ischium ; o.f, obturator foramen. 



with a short centrum, having angulated terminal faces, and distinct 

 surfaces for free ribs or tran verse processes at the junction of the 

 arch and centrum. 



The undermentioned series of vertebras, which are most probably 

 referable to this genus, are characterized by their broad and more 

 or less shortened centra and the absence of intercentra in the post- 

 cervical region. The anterior dorsals have the haemal surface of the 

 centrum rounded, but in the lumbar and sacral region, where there 

 are autogenous transverse processes or ribs, the haemal and lateral 



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



2 Phil. Trans, for 1888, p. 91. 



