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PROF. H. G. SEELEY ON THE REPTILE 



The vertebrae, plate i. figs. 24-26, regarded as crocodilian, per- 

 tain to a small Dinosaur ; figure 27 in the same plate, regarded as 

 the dorsal rib of a Crocodile, I interpret as the cervical rib of a 

 Dinosaur. The vertebras, regarded as crocodilian, which are figured 

 in pi. ii. give evidence of a second and larger species of Dinosaur, 

 and exemplify its cervical, caudal, and dorsal vertebras. 



On plate iii. fig. 1, the specimen regarded as the right side of a 

 hinder dorsal rib of a Teleosaur I regard as the shaft of the femur 

 of a new Dinosaurian genus. Figures 2-4, described as a crocodilian 

 femur, is the femur of the larger Dinosaur. Figures 5, 6, called 

 fragment of lower jaw of a Lizard, is certainly neither a fragment 

 of jaw nor a Lizard-bone, but the proximal end of a large rib of a 

 Dinosaur. Figures 12, 13, called the upper half of a crocodilian 

 humerus, I regard as the proximal part of a Dinosaurian fibula. 



In plate iv. figs. 1, 2, classed as dermal bones of a Crocodile, I refer 

 to one of the large new Dinosaurs. Figure 3, described as the right 

 ilium of Iguanodon Mantelli, is certainly a coracoid of a large Dino- 

 saur. The tail-vertebras on the same plate, referred to Scelidosaurus, 

 are caudals of the same Dinosaurian genus already referred to. The 

 figures 11, 12, called phalange of crocodilian, is a Dinosaurian meta- 

 carpal or metatarsal ; and the claw-phalange (figs. 4, 5), referred to 

 Scdidosaurus, probably belongs to the same animal. 



The figures of the remarkable skull of Struthiosaurus, represented 

 on plate v., are all unsatisfactory, since they give but a vague idea 

 of its structure. Figures 7-9, described as the rib of a lacertilian 

 (Danubiosaurus anceps), represent the scapula of the larger Dinosaur. 

 Figure 10, termed claw-phalange of Danubiosaurus, was shown by 

 Prof. Suess to be a piece of Dinosaurian armour, since he fitted it to 

 a remarkable horn-like scute of the larger new Dinosaur. 



On plate vi. figs. 1-3, is represented another example of the large 

 Dinosaurian scapula, there interpreted as the rib of Danubiosaurus 

 anceps. Figures 4, 5 are said to represent the left ilium of this 

 imaginary animal ; but they are really the costal plate and blended 

 rib of a large and remarkable new Chelonian type. Figures 8-10, 

 termed bodies of vertebras of Lizard, are vertebras of the same species 

 of Crocodile represented on plate i. Figures 6, 7, described as the 

 articular part of the lower jaw of a Lizard, are really the articular 

 end of the lower jaw of a Pterodactyle of the genus Oniithocheirus. 

 I concur with the identification of fig. 11, as vertebra of a Lizard. The 

 bone represented in figures 12, 13, termed dorsal rib of Lizard, is the 

 fibula of a Crocodile. I am unable to recognize satisfactory Lizard- 

 characters either in the humerus figured in this plate or in any of the 

 bones represented in plate vii., while that represented in figs. 22 and 

 23, termed a rib, seems to me to be a femur of a new Dinosaurian 

 genus. The Dinosaurian dermal armour in this plate, referred to 

 Soelidosaurus, must be associated with the bones of one or the other 

 of the large Dinosaurs already referred to. 



All the specimens on plate viii. are Dinosaurian ; and I should only 

 differ from Dr. Biinzel in referring them, together with fig. 1 (which 

 he terms tail- vertebras of a crocodilian) to the principal Dinosaur. 



