W. J. Holland

“ Utterback only succeeded in finding two vertebrae, one cervical rib, one fairly complete dorsal rib, fragments of other dorsal ribs, an os pubis, a large number of scutes, some of them quite perfect, and several hundred fragments of bones, some of them no doubt belonging to the skull, others to the vertebrae and ribs, but all of them so badly broken, and a few even water-worn, that it is impossible to refer them with any degree of certainty to their true position. ”

“ The spine of the seventh cervicals is not shielded above by a row of scutes; and the spine of the eighth cervical is only partially covered by the first transverse row of the dorsal series of scutes. The dorsal series is made up of fifteen transverse rows of scutes, each row composed of four or six bony plates. Those containing six plates are the second, the fifth, the eighth, the tenth, eleventh, and twelfth rows, reckoning backward. The fifteenth transverse row of scutes, overlies and covers the spines of the third and fourth lumbar vertebrae. ”

“ Scutes massive and possessing great vertical height in comparison with their breadth, many of the smaller scutes being almost hemispherical, and some of the smallest subglobose. Pubis straighter and less deeply excavated posteriorly than in recent crocodilia. Extremities of dorsal spines of vertebrae broad transversely and thickened for attachments, much more so than in existing genera. The postzygapophyses of the vertebrae more nearly on the same plane as the transverse processes and not looking outwardly as much as in other crocodiles. ”