Litchfield enquirer., 1862-06-19
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 LiferarY Notices.

1 Literary Notices.
 ] We have received pamphlet from the author, describing the T Remains of a. new Enaliosau= rian, {EosaurusS Acadianns, from the Coal For mationsof Novs Scotia by o. c. Marsh, B. Al, ofthe Shef6eld Scientific School, Yale College.
 From this work,swe make the following inter esting extracts.:-
 "In the year 1s44, Hermann von Meyer an- nounced the discovery in the Rhenish Bavarian Coal measures of reptile allied te the Salaman- ders, which he described under the name Apa- icon pedestris.'' " slrsihe present remafns were imbedded in Ia stratum Of argillaeeous chocolate-colored shale, which forms pai4 Of group xxvI inthe elaborate section n of this formation made in iSo2 by Sir Charles Lyell and Prof. J W. Dawson, rr-rr7 1 StsProf. Dawson considers these deposits estu-a ary or anyiatile sediments, covering flats, which were at times dry, or nearly so, and at others inundated" |. ' / / | Es3It E3J dElA- ] 1 Group XIV, immediately beneath the locality of the Vertebre, is about twenty feet in thick ness and consists of series of underclays, or, coal in which 1msy be seen SigilIarse and Lepi- dodsadra.8 Two feet below group1xvI. there is stratum of bituminous limestone, which con- tains the scales of gappid fishes Pal9oniseus,) coProlites, biyalye shells of the genus Naiadites, and Spirorbis ear6onarias attached to plants and trunks of Sigtllarie. ''"'sSE' si'*i@'
 E9 Through the center of the anterior vertebra an irregular cavity has been made, and a wide Assure separates segment from the rest of the centrum" .-et.r gags-Hrj gl,sfasd ,f} laa 2" The general form of the yertebree is cylin- drical, but their sides are, somewhat compressed obliquely, which gives to the centra a subhexa- gonal appearance. They are much aattened in the direction of the antero-posterior diameter, which has to the transverse diameter about the I proportion of to 3. The neurapophysss are not anchylossd to l the centrum, IS in the Mamnaalia, nor connected | to it by sutures, as il the Crocodiles"
 "From the extinct Reptiles possessing bicon- ! cave yertebrn, NisAs AsNkich -aEa have to compafe l these remains, we may at once set aside the or ders Ganoeephdla and ndLsbyrinthodontia of Prof. Owen since in these, according to the present state of Knowledge either the notochord was persistent, as in the Archegosaarus; or, when a higher degree of vertebral ossification was at tained, the neurapophyses were anchylosed to the centrum. Among the Crocodilians, nearly all from the secondary formations had vertebr@ I of the amphiculiaa type; but, inasmuch as the centrum was terminated by very shallow cavi- l ties, and had the superior arch united to it by suture, it will be unnecessary to give further consideration to this group. In the Sauroptery- gia biconcaye yertebr@ also prevail, butthey are all more or less elongated, except in the cervi- cal region of the PLiosaurus, where they have nearly the proportions of the present remains. In this case, however, the articular extremities of the centrum were flat, or very slightly con cave, and consequently this genus may likewise be rejected"
 The remaining orders of extinct saurians ex- hibiting the biconcave structure of vertebre, i with the single exception of the Ichthyopterygia I differ so essentially, in their known remains, I from these vertebrm of the Eosaurus, either in the length of the centrum, in the depth of it's adapted cavities, or in it's union with the neural ! arch, that we may evidently terminate the com parison with the importast genus on which that | order has been founded" I .... -. +-s.;.9.5 From the above copious extracts, our readers will doubtless form clear and lucid understand standing of the work, and as complete an idea of the wonderful animal it describes as we pos sess ourself from n careful perusal. It is un- doubtedly a work for which children will cry - We return our hearty thanks to the author for thus enlightcning us, and trust if he should dis cover another yertebrse in the Palaeozoic strata, he will favor us with another installment of his researches, which we shall lose no time in lay ing before our readers. . .....-
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