Jávorka Sándor - Soós Lajos (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 29. (Budapest 1935)
Fejérváry, G. J.: Further contributions to a monograph of the Megalanidae and fossil Varanidae - with notes on recent Varanians
Notiosaurus dentatus, Owen", a rather well preserved maxillary 2 , the characters of which show to be perfectly correspondent with those exhibited by the dentary of Owen's Notiosaurus. The maxillary was found in the „fluviatile deposits near Clifton Station, King Creek, Condamine River." 3 This remain was associated with „numerous vertebrae, undoubtedly those of Owen's Megalania". With respect to the condition of fossilization and the association in which the maxillary was found, I merely refer to Mr. ETHERIDGE'S following statement 4 : „Associated with these," — i. e. with the Megalanian vertebrae just mentioned — „like in appearance, colour, and condition of petrifaction, are a few limb bones, and the larger portion of a right dentary, with part of a tooth in situ; there can be no reasonable doubt that these remains all belonged to one and. the same species of reptile." Photographs of the maxillary (external and lingual view) are given on Pl. VIII (Figs. 1—2) of the same paper. The second part of this publication bears the title „Megalania prisca, a Cave Fossil" 5 , being accompanied by two photographs (PL. VIII, Figs. 3—4) of a dorsal vertebra of Megalania originating „from the ossiferous deposit at the Wellington Cave Reserve." After the description of the vertebra, which „was found to correspond in every detail with the dorsal vertebra forming a portion of the series already referred to from near Clifton Station", the author communicates, on p. 130, its measurements. After this the enumeration of the localities follows, in which, up-to the end of 1916, Megalanian remains were found. These localities are: 1. Fluviatile deposits of the Condamine River and of its branches (King Creek, &c). Queensland: near Melbourne, Victoria; South Australia; Castlereagh River, N. S. Wales. 2. Mound Spring deposit of Cuddie Springs, East of Gulgongong, N. S. Wales. 3. Cave deposits of Wellington Caves Reserve, N. S. Wales. It is owing to the most regrettable interruption international scientific contact has undergone during the Great War, that Mr. R. ETHERIDGE Jr.'s important paper just mentioned has not been available to me at the time in which I was preparing my Monograph 2 Referred to by Mr. ETHERIDGE under tlie anatomically erroneous designation „Dentary". « Op. cit. p. 127. 4 L. c. 5 Op. cit. p. 129.
