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are not furnished with any teeth. Nor is it less surprising that M. 
Faujas should have considered this fossil as belonging to a physeter, 
and describe it as being without arms or legs*, since the physeters 
have teeth in the lower jaw only ; and since, in this fossil, the traces 
both of the fore and hind legs were discoverable. 
From the researches which M. Cuvier has made, respecting the 
fossil remains of this animal, he concludes, that at Honfleur and Havre 
the fossil remains of two species of crocodiles are found, both approach- 
ing to the Gavial, but both unknown ; that one of these two species 
at least is found in other parts of France, at Alencon and elsewhere ; 
that the skeleton discovered at Whitby was probably of one of that 
species found in France, the under jaw of which he has figured , that 
the fragments of the heads found in the territory of Yicentino may be 
referred to the same species ; that the fossil heads found at Altorf are 
different from those of the Gavial, and have a longer snout than that 
of the animal of Honfleur, whose jaw is figured, and may therefore 
belong to the other fossil species found in France ; that the skeleton 
described by Stukeley is a crocodile’s, but of an indeterminable species ; 
that the supposed crocodiles, the remains of which are found in the 
pyritous schist of Thuringia, were of the genus Monitor, Cuvier, 
formed of Lacerta monitor, Linn. 
He also concludes, that all these fossil remains of oviparous quad- 
rupeds belong to very ancient beds, among those which are termed 
secondary ; and even much anterior to the regular stony beds, which 
contain the bones of unknown genera of quadrupeds, such as the 
palcfiotheriums and the anoplotheriums ; which opinion, however, 
does not oppose the finding of the remains of crocodiles with those of 
these genera, as has been done in the gypsum quanies. 
The opportunities which I have had of examining British fossils of 
this kind, have not been such as to enable me to add to the very im- 
* Essais de Geologie, I. p. 360. 
