Chelonia. 
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Several smaller species of Chelonians are also exhibited from Wall-case,, 
the same Indian locality. 
Fig. 57— Carapace of Chelone (?) Benstedi (Mantell); Lower Chalk, Burham, Kent. 
(Figured in “ Phil. Trans.,” 1841, pis. XI and XII.) 
In Wall-case 12, are placed tlie remains of a remarkable ^ 
extinct Chelonian, named Miolania Oweni , A. S. Woodw., i om -jyj- iolarLia 
Australia, having’ nine horn-like prominences on its skull, whic t Qweni. 
B A 
Fig 58 —a The Skull, and b, the Tail-sheath of the great Horned Chelonian, Miolania 
Oweni (A. S. Woodw.), from the Newer Tertiary deposits of Australia. 
measured 1 foot 104 inches in breadth. The skull, at first glance, 
looks like that of some flat-headed form of Ox ; but the bones 
are altogether dissimilar, and the jaws are without teeth. 
Other remains w T ere sent over in 1880, showing that it 
possessed a tail encased in a horny sheath (see Fig. 58, b), so 
like the armour-plated tail of the great extinct non-bandcd 
