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Chelonia. 
Wall-case, 
No. 12. 
Chelone 
grigras. 
Armadillo (Glyptodon) from South America, that had the tail 
arrived before the head and vertebrae had been received, it 
might well have been cited to prove the former existence of 
the Glyptodon in Australia (see “ Phil. Trans.” 1858, 1880, and 
1881). Still further evidence of these: another species of horned 
Chelonians, named Miolania platyceps by Owen, has been 
obtained from a coral sandstone formation on Lord Howe Island, 
700 miles from the coast of Australia, whence the first specimens 
were obtained. 
I-ig. 59. — Skeleton of the Logger-head Turtle, Thalassochelys caretta (Linn. sp.). 
This remarkable reptile was originally referred, by Sir 
Bichard Owen, to the Lacertilia (Lizards), but was afterwards 
shown by Prof. Huxley to belong to the Chelonians, and he 
proposed for it the name Ceratochelys, from the liorn-like 
processes on the cranium. 
Here are placed the remains of tbe great Chelone Hoffmanni, 
from tbe Chalk of Maestricbt. The JEosphargis gigcus , whose 
head and some other parts of the skeleton may be seen 
