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improbable that other remains related to our fossils may ultimately be found in 
synchronous deposits elsewhere. 
Zittel has pointed out that of the imperfectly known Cretaceous and 
Tertiary marine turtles which have been placed by some authors in independent 
families, numerous examples are {lerhaps most nearly related to the Chelomdm.^ 
Whilst the plastral plate to be described cannot be associated with any of the 
forms treated in literature available to the writer, the bones of the shoulder- 
girdle and limb-fragments point irresistibly to Chelonoid affinities. Until further 
remains are forthcoming it would l)e unwise to state an arbitrary systematic 
position, but temporarily the giant Queensland Turtle may be placed in Gray s 
family Chelonidce of Baur^s superfamily Chelonoldm, under the name of 
Craiochelone herneyi. The generic name is in obvious contradistinction to the 
small Xotochelone cosiaU.iy Owen.^ from the same district, supxdementary portions 
of which were described by De Vis."^ Here it may be appropriately mentioned 
that Ramsay noted ^ “ a portion of a pelvis,'’ received from Lord Howe Island,, 
on which no generic conclusions could be based, but which he stated will prove 
to belong to a large sea-turtle.” 
CRATOCHELONE BERNEYI, gen. et spec. nov. 
(Reg. No. Q.M. F.14/550.) 
The fossils consist of four portions of the left shoulder-girdle, with the 
proximal ends of the left humerus, radius and ulna, and when received these were 
largely superimposed and the whole crushed down on an incomj)lete plastral 
plate, which had also sustained a transverse fracture. All the bones were heavily 
invested with a fine hard dirty stone-coloured ” matrix, and grea.t difficulty 
was experienced in exposing the natural contours. Some of the associated cavities 
were infilled with calcite. Specimens of the common bivalve shell, Ancella 
Imgliendenensls, Eth. fils, were found in the matrix. A cranial fragment of 
Porthcns ausiralis, A. S. Woodward, an Ichthyodectoid fish, also forwarded, is 
noted ]>y ]\Ir. Berney as found lying Avith above. 
Left shoulder-girdle (Fig. 1, upper view). — The contours of these remains 
are decidedly Chelonoid. Although the bai‘s are broken off close to the body, the 
basal curves and the angle between the scaxAular and its ‘'acromial process” or 
the precoracoid may be gauged as closely corresponding to those in Chelone 
mydas. Now that the matrix has been removed, the scapular facet of the coracoid 
may be approximated to its fellow, and here, too, the angles at the base of the 
coracoid and precoracoid bars and the inward and backward sweep of the former 
have striking affinities Avith those in the green turtle. In the fossil the con- 
tributing curve Avith the angle of the precoracoid and its base is more open. On 
“ Zittel, Text-book of Palawitology, vol. ii., p. 198 (Maeiuillaii). 
® Owen, Quai’t. Joiini. Gool. Soc., 1882, xxxviii., p. 178. 
^ De Ann. QxieenslniHl ATuseiun, No. 10, 1911, p. 3. 
‘^Eamsay, Proc. Lin. Soc. N.S.AV., 1882, vii., pi. i., p. 86. 
