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

that in Megalania there are decided traces of a rather pathogène gigantism, that process having mostly affected the vertebral column, and being at the same time combined with another pathogène train of development, apparently prevailing in vertebrae and ribs, the structure of which seems to be retraceable to something like pachyostosis and osteosclerosis,

68 If there is any direct connection between the factors that produced the gigantic characters and those lig". 3. Same dorsal vertebra, anterior view. — si = sulcus lateralis canalis vertebralis; cpl = cristae posterobasilaterales canalis vertebralis: ao =~- pars tectiformis arcusvertebrae: iZ — incisuia lateralis arcus vertebrae. which provoked the pachyostotical features, and. suppo; , :l that such should have existed, in what they consist, and if they enter the biodynamism of relations or correlations — these are questions which we cannot answer until further notice. 6

" NOPCSA: Vorläufige iNotiz über Pachyostose und Osteosklerose einiger mariner Wirbeitiere, Anat. Anz. 36, 192">. pp. 355— 339, and Eidolosaurus und Pachyopliis, Zwei neue Neocom-Reptilicn. Palaeoutographica, 65, 1923, pp. 99— 154, 2 Taf. (see pp. 112—117).