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MEMOIBS OF THE QJJEENSLANl) MUSEUM. 
RESTORATION OF KRONOSAURUS QUEENS- 
LANDICUS. 
(Plate XII.) 
In order to make more attractive the fragments of Kronosaurus queens- 
landicus exhibited in the Queensland Museum, a painting which suggests the 
appearance of this gigantic Cretaceous Pliosaur in a natural environment has been 
placed beside tliem. Plate XTI is a much reduced illustration of this painting, but 
owing to the absence of colour it does not do justice to the original. 
Owing to the incompleteness of our material, this restoration has been largely 
based on the skeleton of Peloneustes philarchus, as given by C. W. Anch’ews in his 
Catalogue of the Marine Reptiles of the Oxford Clay, published by the British 
Museum, part 2, 1913. 
Although no claims for precise accuracy should be made for restorations of 
this kind, it is considered that the approximate contours are represented, and I wish 
to pay a tribute to the care and skill exercised by iVIr. Wilfrid Morden, after making 
many preliminary sketches, in completing this work. 
Kronosaurus qtieenslandicAis was first descilbed in 1924 (Mem. Qld. Mus., VIII, 
pt. I) from a fragment of a lower jaw from Hughenden, presented by !Mr. Andrew 
Crombie. Supplementary material was received in 1929 from the same district 
through Messrs. H. A. Craig, W. Charles, and N. E. Anderson, and this was 
described in 1930 (Mem. Qld. Mus., X, pt. I). 
Heber a. Longman. 
