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den Zähnen ungefähr in einer Ebene liegt, nach vorne sich aber nach innen dreht, so dass sie schliesslich, vor dem Turbinale, sich rechtwinklig zu diesen gestellt hat, und hier ihre verticale Erhebung über den unteren Kieferrand nur sehr gering ist, so bleibt sie bei dem vorliegenden Fossil in ihrer ganzen Erstreckung in dieser zu den Zähnen paralellen Lage, ist vorn sehr hoch und dehnt sich hier verhält oismässig nur .sehr wenig median wärts aus. Doch befindet sich auch hier eine grubige längliche Vertiefung. Die ganze Schnauze musste also wohl etwas' höher, doch bedeutend mehr zugespitzt gewesen sein, was durch die Kürze derselben noch stärker hervorgetreten sein musste.» The part of the maxillary bent inwards (a I a superior m a x i 11 33 mihi) is present in V. marathonensis as well as in other M o n i t • o r s, but being more distinctly separated from the lower and median portion of this bone,WEITHOFER in his description considered only the parts situated under the ala superior maxillae, a part of the latter being equally occupied by the excavatio nasalis. He also recognizes the presence of a «grubige längliche Vertiefung». I should like to suggest the possibility of the ala superior of WEITHOFER'S specimen being incomplete, its upper part broken and lost, the lower part alone visible and separated by a furrow formed by the outer edge of the excavatio nasalis ; this outer edge is very strongly marked in some specieô, as for instance in old specimens of V. niloticus L. and V.griseus DAUD.; the limit between the median portion of maxillary and the ala superior is defined on the median portion by a sharp crest, after which the ala superior's exterior part appears as deeply sunken. The supposition of a fracture of the ala superior would thus, apparently, make WEITHOFER'S description most comprehensible ; a positive s t a t e m e n t of the real conditions w r ould naturally necessitate an immediate examination of the original type-specimen. The anterior part of the maxillary, is, as might be presumed from Textfig. Sb, indeed large enough, though not larger than in old specimens of V. griseus, so that a somewhat thickened snout could be supposed, yet not differing in this respect from the recent V. griseus; the strong crista nasalis (mihi) 1 ends about at the first third of the maxillary, and owing to this the transition between its convexly rounded median part and the ala superior seems to have been a more gradual one. The teeth are pointed, curved backwards, bearing distinct furrows at their basal parts ; they may have been between 10 and 13 in number. The Csarnóta fossil (Pl. II, Fig. 1) consists but of a very fragmentary portion of the left maxillary incompletely representing about the 1 S?e for this terminology the figure representing the maxillary of y V. diras DE Vis (Textfig. 16).
