ANNALS 
MEDEDELINGEN 
OF THE 
VAN HET 
TRANSVAAL MUSEUM 
Vol. 7 
Part 2 
CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE 
REPTILES OF THE KARROO FORMATION 
In November of 1915 the Transvaal Museum bought the remains of a small 
Dinosaur from a resident of Ficksburg. The specimen had been discovered in 
a building-stone quarry near Roosendal, O.F.S. This is most probably the 
same quarry in which the small Pseudosuchian Pedeticosaurus Leviseuri has 
been found. During the usual quarrying work a stone was split and found to 
contain the remains of some animal. The little village of Roosendal was very 
interested in the find and in due course photographs of the fossil were sent to 
friends. One of these photographs reached my friend Mr A. W. Putterill of 
Harrismith, who sent it on to me with the necessary information. Through 
this report the Transvaal Museum eventually came into possession of one of 
its best specimens. I have therefore great pleasure in thanking Mr Putterill 
for the service he has rendered to our institution in particular and to science 
in general. 
It follows, from the above, that the remains are on two slabs of rock. They 
consist of a nearly complete skeleton. The skull is lost or at least not visible, 
for it is not impossible that it is present in a more or less fragmentary con- 
dition under some of the other bones. Two jaw portions with some teeth are 
exposed. The neck vertebrae have been crushed sideways into a heap. All 
the dorsal vertebrae are more or less articulated as also a fair number of 
caudals. The front legs are incomplete, but the hinder extremities are very 
well preserved. The shoulder girdle is only represented by two coracoids and 
the proximal ends of the scapulae, while the pelvis shows all its constituents 
of which some are in very good condition. All the bones, however, have been 
much flattened. 
By Dr E. C. N. van Hoepen, M.I. 
5. A NEW DINOSAUR FROM THE STORMBERG 
With two plates and six text-figures 
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