Wall -case, 
No. 11. 
Table-case 
No. 24. 
Wall-case, 
No. 11. 
Table- 
cases, 
Nos. 23, 
24. 
64 
Amphibia — Labyrinthodontia. 
( Cryptobra rich us) represented by the gigantic Salamander (If- 
maximus ) of China and Japan, with which we may probably 
include the large Salamander from the Upper Miocene of Oenin- 
gen, Switzerland, originally regarded as the remains of a fossil 
man, and described by Scheuchzer as “ homo diluvii testis the 
man who witnessed the Deluge ! 
Crypt obranchus Tschudii (Meyer) a much smaller form than 
C. maximus , but with a skull of nearly the same form is from 
the Miocene Brown-coal beds of Jtott, near Bonn, in the 
Siebengebirge. 
The true Salamanders lose their gills, when adult, but^ in 
some individuals of Amblystoma they are persistent. Ihe 
existing crested Newt ( Molge cnstata ) is found in the Norfolk 
Forest-bed, other representatives occur in the Middle and Lower 
Miocene of Europe. Chelotriton is found in the Lower Miocene 
of Allier ; Heliarchon in the Brown Coal of Bonn, and Megalo- 
triton in the Upper Eocene Phosphorites of Central France. 
Order III. — LABYRINTHODONTIA. 
In this order the body is long lizard-like (occasionally snake- 
like in form) with a tail, the pectoral limbs shorter than the 
supraoccipital ; F/i, epiotic; C, parietal; 
Sq, squamosal; ST, supratemporal ; Q.J, 
quadratojugal ; Ju, jugal; Pt, postfrontal; 
TtO, postorbital; Fr , frontal; Fr.F, pre- 
frontal ; L, lachrymal : Fa, nasal ; Mx, 
maxilla; the premaxilla has no letter. 
(After Fraas.) 
Fig. 85.— Palatal asp> ei >t cranium of Masto- 
ilonsaurus giganteus (Jaeger); from the 
Lower Keuper of Wurtcmberg. (After 
jiall. 
