Harry Govier Seeley

“ On each side of the base, between this ridge and the rib, is a large impressed crescentic area. The transverse width of the base of the centrum external to the ribs is 27/8 inches. The bases of the ribs are strong, elevated, and directed chiefly downward. The sides of the centrum are smooth, concave from front to back, and moderately convex from above downward, and extend vertically for 1 inch above the ribs; the neural arch is confluent with the centrum, and unites with it by a large compressed squamose base, which fits into an impressed concave area. ”

“ The Gault hitherto has yielded but scanty remains of animals referable to the Reptilia and to the Palæosauria; so that more than ordinary interest attaches to the discovery, in a comparatively perfect condition, of remains belonging to a genus found hitherto only in New Zealand, which may be regarded as distinctive of the deposit. ”

“ The distal articular margin for the bones of the forearm is nearly straight; and the surface for the radius does not make an angle with the surface for the ulna. The bone was unusually massive, and relatively to the vertebræ is much longer and broader than in Dr. Hector's Mauisaurus Haastii.
The femur is imperfect at both ends. The fragment preserved is 13 inches long. The proximal end of the bone is nearly cylindrical and about 4 inches in diameter. The anterior margin of the bone is very slightly concave, so as to be nearly straight; the posterior outline is deeply concave. ”