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| Keywords: The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London (14053352106).jpg PERFECT SKELETON OF RHTTINA GIGAS <br> 459 <br> The pelvis in the Sirenia is ex- <br> ceedingly rudimentary consisting of <br> a pair of small bones suspended at <br> some distance below the vertebral <br> column These have not been ob- <br> served in Kfiytina There is no <br> trace of any hind limb ; but a rudi- <br> mentary femur has been noticed in <br> another extinct form of Sirenian <br> HalWierimri <br> Ehytina The ITead ”The head <br> in Rhytina is small in proportion to <br> the long and very thick body The <br> bones of the skull are massive but <br> very loosely connected together <br> Sir Eichard Owen observes that <br> this character of the skull taken in <br> connexion with the density of the <br> bony skeleton and the absence of <br> cavities in the bones themselves <br> reminds one of the skeleton of the <br> Eeptilia Owen On the Dugong <br> Proc Zool Soc 1838 pp 28-45 <br> The nasal bones are quite rudi- <br> mentary ; the maxillary border is <br> narrow and straight ; the premaxil- <br> lary bones forming the rostral por- <br> tion of the skull are long and con- <br> siderably developed in front forming <br> the strongly curved border of the <br> nasal opening and projecting with <br> a downward curve as in Hcdicore <br> but less acute its upper and outer <br> contour being very convex and the <br> lower and inner palatal surface <br> being concave <br> The zygomatic arch is strongly <br> developed and much curved The <br> occipital portion of the skull is the <br> by tlie earlier Toyagers both in the East <br> and West Indies and on the coasts of <br> Africa should hare originated the legends <br> of Mermaids and Sirens seems at first <br> sight incredible ; but art was then in <br> its infancy in this country and doubtless <br> the engraver who pourtrayed at seco7id <br> hand the features of the sea-siren had <br> but little assistance in his delineation <br> from the narrator <br> Ornithopsis Seeleyi Hulke was not <br> then discovered <br> <br> § <br> ' <br> E-s <br> H' <br> «- <br> <br> \ ” <br> <br> CO <br> -l <br> ' C5 <br> p <br> C3 <br> » <br> <br> r <br> <br> c <br> 3 <br> – <br> C-'i <br> ¢ P- <br> c <br> – <br> p <br> c-l <br> f ” ' <br> p' <br> <br> p <br> »-s <br> s <br> a <br> tn <br> - <br> CD <br> cr <br> <br> p <br> <br> vi° <br> o <br> Pj <br> b <br> »« <br> P <br> ; <br> e-h <br> s <br> O <br> II <br> W <br> m <br> K- ' <br> CO <br> a <br> P <br> <br> 2 <br> P <br> b <br> p <br> cS <br> e <br> Co <br> - ” <br> S5 <br> <br> - <br> p <br> c+- <br> ¢ <br> p <br> r <br> w <br> en <br> 5q <br> P- <br> ct- <br> o <br> t ” <br> <br> CO <br> l-t <br> t <br> o <br> CD <br> c1- <br> Ci <br> _ <br> P <br> o <br> p- <br> « 37047329 114009 51125 Page 459 Text 41 http //www biodiversitylibrary org/page/37047329 1885 Geological Society of London NameFound Ehytina NameFound Gigas NameConfirmed Gigas NameBankID 5095720 NameFound Kfiytina NameFound Ornithopsis NameConfirmed Ornithopsis NameBankID 4270321 NameFound Rhttina NameFound Rhytina NameConfirmed Rhytina NameBankID 4332298 NameFound Sirenia NameConfirmed Sirenia EOLID 8708 NameBankID 2482684 Biodiversity Heritage Library The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London v 41 1885 Geology Periodicals Smithsonian Libraries bhl page 37047329 dc identifier http //biodiversitylibrary org/page/37047329 smithsonian libraries Information field Flickr posted date ISOdate 2014-04-30 Check categories 2015 August 26 CC-BY-2 0 BioDivLibrary https //flickr com/photos/61021753 N02/14053352106 2015-08-26 04 59 18 cc-by-2 0 PD-old-70-1923 The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London 1885 Photos uploaded from Flickr by Fæ using a script | ||||
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