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EXTINCT MONSTERS 
A fine specimen is to be seen at the Xatural History Museum 
(Wall-case 9). Like the Rhynchosaiirns, it had a broadly triangular 
form of skull, with the orbits for tlie eyes directed upwards, and 
the jaws prolonged into a sharp curved beak, so that it comes 
into the same order of “ beak-headed lizards.” But, unlike the 
latter reptile, it had several rows of well-developed, low, conical 
' teeth, both on the jaws and palate. The specimen at South 
Kensington shows the head, neck, backbone, and ribs, together 
Fig. 38. — Front view of skull of Elginia 7nirabilis, as restored from natural 
moulds in tlie Elgin Sandstone, by Mr. E. T. Newton. 
with some of the limb-bones. We have therefore ventured on 
a restoration by Mr. Smit (see Plate IX.), in order to give the 
reader an idea of its curious head and beaked jaws. (The limbs 
might be larger.) Hyperodapedon must have had a wide geo- 
graphical range during the period of the Trias ; for its remains 
have also been found in the centre of England (Warwickshire), 
in Devonshire, and in Central India. A much larger species 
