The Ornithosauria: An elementary study of the bones of Pterodactyles made from fossil remains found in the Cambridge Upper Greensand, and arranged in the Woodwardian Museum of the University of CambridgeSeeley, H. G. (Harry Govier)
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The Ornithosauria: An elementary study of the bones of Pterodactyles made from fossil remains found in the Cambridge Upper Greensand, and arranged in the Woodwardian Museum of the University of Cambridge
Seeley, H. G. (Harry Govier)
Pterosauria
The fragment is 1-7/8 inch long. The second and third sockets, with
their interspace, measure 1-1/8 inch. On the opposite side the first
socket is intermediate in position between the first and second.
Though not likely, it is just possible that this might be the
premaxillary bone of O. eurygnathus.
XVIII.
Ornithocheirus brachyrhinus (Seeley).
Case. Comp. Tablet.
=J= _c_ 24
This fragment of a premaxillaiy bone is fractured behind the sockets
for the third pair of teeth. It is 1-1/8 inch long, and shows one pair
of small teeth in front and two pairs of large ovate teeth on the
palate. The first pair are divided from each other and from the second
pair by films of bone; and the second pair are separated from the
third by rather more than half the length, of the third socket. Behind
the third pair of sockets the palate is 5/8ths of an inch wide; it is
flattened, and has a blunt moderately elevated mesial ridge. Behind
the second pair of sockets the jaw is 5/8ths of an inch high; behind
the third pair of sockets it is 3/4ths of an inch high; the distance
between the places of measurement is 1/2 an inch. The sides are flat
and converge to a rounded nose. The jaw is rounded from side to side
in front, and the outline of the top of the nose rounds over the blunt
termination of the snout above the teeth on to the palate.
In the shortness of the nose it somewhat resembles the _?P. giganteus_
(Bowerbank), but the jaw attenuates less rapidly, is truncated, and has
larger teeth.
XIX.
Ornithocheirus enchorhynchus (Seeley).
Case. Comp. Tablet.
=J= _c_ 25
This species nearly resembles _O. brachyrhinus,_ from which it differs
in larger size, with a relatively wider palate, which is without a
keel, and in a larger front pair of teeth. It approximates towards
_O, colorhinus_, but is smaller, and wants the rugose lunate area
over the front pair of teeth characteristic of that species. There
are many varieties or species nearly related to this type, but from
their imperfect preservation and the small part of the head which they
represent, it is not possible to give descriptions of them.
XX.
Ornithocheirus eurygnathus (Seeley).
Case. Comp. Series. Tablet.
=J= _c3_ 16 1
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