Fourteen years later Hermann von Meyer, the renowned German paleontologist, described and figured other remains of the same or an allied reptile under the name _Belodon plieningeri_. In subsequent papers during the next twenty-three years von Meyer very fully described and beautifully illustrated the skulls and other remains of this and other species, all of which he referred to the genus _Belodon_, the name by which for many years the animals were generally known in scientific literature. Von Meyer thought that he recognized in _Belodon kapfii_, the species most often figured in textbooks, the same animal that Jaeger had previously described. Von Meyer was not at all certain about the relationships of his _Belodon_, though he recognized its affinity with the crocodiles. It was Huxley who, in a famous paper on the evolution of the crocodiles, published in 1875, united _Belodon_ and another genus from the Trias of Scotland, which he called _Stagonolepis_, with the Crocodilia as representatives of the suborder Parasuchia, one of the three into which he divided the order. Huxley admitted that the relationships between the Parasuchia and the Mesosuchia or Eusuchia, the other suborders which he proposed, were not as intimate as those between the latter two, which were separated solely on the structure of the palate and vertebrae, as has been explained in chap. xv. As early as 1869 the late Professor Cope recognized certain forms which had been previously described from Carolina as belonging to the group, calling them _Belodon_, but it was not until 1896 that E. Fraas separated _Belodon planirostris_ of von Meyer as a member of a distinct genus, to which he gave the name _Mystriosuchus_.