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 B? 011N uDWAR GRAY, ,Fdq., M. qk& Genus ClFLAMYDOSAURUS. G,y. Pedi&u qutuor. ul elonfA, subcylindrici. Animal scaly; the hed depressed; the .nost. rils p}aeed on the side, midway between the eyes and the end of the head; the drum of the ear naked ;. the front teeth conical, �awl-shaped (eight in the upper, and four in the lower jaw); the hinder ones ]ar.est; the side or cheek teeth compressed, short, forming a single. ridge,. eduly. lourer behind; tonKue short, fieshy, with an oval smooth disk at each side of the lower l:mrt of its front part; neck rather long; furnished on each side with a large plalted frill, supported'above by a crescent-shaped cartilage arisin from the upper hinder l)art of the ear, and, in the middle, by an elonltion of the sl.de fork of the bone of.the tongue; body 'compressed; les rather long, especially the hinder ones; destitute of fernoral pores; feet four, with five' toes, the first having two, the second three, the third four, the fourth five, and the little nr and toe three joints; claws compressed, hooked; tail long, nearly round, scaly. 'fhis ienus appears to be nearly allied to the ,ge, but differs from them in the peculiar frill that is appended to the neck. o,g,,,zed by Goog|�

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