ON 
PETROPHRYNE GRANULATA Ow., 
a 
LABYRINTHODONT 
Reptile from the Trias of South Africa, with special compa- 
rison of the skull with that of BMnosaurus Jasikovii Fisch. 
By 
Prof. Richard Owen, C. B., F. R. S., 
CorrespoBdiiig Member of the Imperial Society of Naturalists of 
Moscou etc. 
In the ^Bulletin de la Societe Imperiale des Natura- 
listes de Moscou', tome XX, 1874, a distinguished Mem- 
ber of the Society, Son Excellence G. Fischer de 
Waldheim described and figured (PI. V) a fossil skull 
of a Reptile, stated to have been found in the upper Ju- 
rassic deposits of Simbirsk. * To the species yielding the 
skull the term Bhinosaiirus Jasikovii is applied, in ho- 
nour of its discoverer M. Pierre de Jasikow. 
The characters by which this fossil is distinguished 
from Enaliosauria and Crocodilia are truly and instruc- 
*) „Le crftne a ete tTouvö dans les couches superieures du Jura 
de Simbirsk''. Op. cit., p. 7.) 
