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IT will probably interest geologists and palæontologists to know that a recent examination of the numerous remains of Thecodontosauria in the Bristol Museum, enables me to demonstrate that these Triassic reptiles belong to the order Dinosauria, and are closely allied to Megalosaurus. The vertebræ, humerus, and ilium, found in the Warwickshire Trias, which have been ascribed to Labyrinthodon, also belong to Dinosauria. The two skeletons obtained in the German Trias near Stuttgart, and described by Prof. Plieninger, some years ago, are also unquestionable Dinosauria; and, as Von Meyer is of opinion, probably belong to the genus Teratosaurus, from the same beds. Von Meyer's Platœosaurus, from the German Trias, is, plainly, as he has indicated it to be, a Dinosaurian.
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HUXLEY, T. Triassic Dinosauria. Nature 1, 23–24 (1869). https://doi.org/10.1038/001023a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/001023a0