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
6. Side view of the same specimen, showing below the
girdling occipital crest the excavation for the quadrate
bone's articulation with the skull, and the forward
prolongation of the basi-sphenoid mass.
7. Palatal aspect of the basi-sphenoid bone. =J=._c_.9. To be
compared with the small triangular mass in fig. 5, p. 85.
8. Side view of the ethmo-sphenoid mass, =J=._c_.9, showing the
lateral boundary of the front of the cerebral hemispheres,
p. 85.
9. Posterior aspect of the same specimen, showing parts of
the cups which covered the anterior termination of
the cerebral lobes.
10. Anterior view of the cerebral lobes in a natural mould
of the brain, in the collection of J. F. Walker, Esq.
It may be compared with figs. 2. and 9, p. 87.
11. Superior aspect of a natural mould of the brain, showing
the outline of the cerebral lobes, and the cerebellum
between them behind. Portions of bone in the temporal
region are left attached, p. 87.
12. Side view of the same specimen; one cerebral lobe is
seen behind the other. The anterior termination of
this figure may be compared with the posterior outline
of fig. 8.
13. Side view of basi-occipital bone, p. 78.
14. Palatal aspect of quadrate bone, showing the articulation
for the lower jaw, and the thin quadrato-jugal attached
to its outside, p. 89.
15. Exterior aspect of quadrato-jugal and quadrate bones.
Above the articulation in German specimens is the
outline of the orbit of the eye.
16. Anterior aspect of the distal end of a left quadrate bone.
17. Posterior aspect of the same specimen, showing the
wing for the pterygoid articulation.
CRANIUM
Pl. 11.
[Illustration]
PLATE XII.
Facial Bones and Lower Jaw.
Fig. 1. Side view of the dentary bone of Ornithocheirus
machærorhynchus, showing its posterior attenuation
towards the palate. =J=._c6_.33.1, p. 113.
2. Superior aspect of the same specimen, showing the
palatal groove and tooth sockets.
3. Articular end of left ramus of mandible, =J=._4_, showing
its posterior termination, p. 91.
4. Articular end of left ramus of mandible, =J=._c6_.32. 2,
fractured through the articulation.
5. Side view of anterior part of dentary bone of Ornithocheirus
Cuvieri ? =J=._c_.15, p. 113.
6. Side view of anterior part of premaxillary bone of
Ornithocheirus microdon, fractured at both ends.
=J=._c_.29, p. 116.
7. Palatal aspect of the same specimen, showing the palatal
ridge and tooth sockets.
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