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Note 609 — Chapter XVI

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Now in the British Museum: see Petrif. p. 170. A lithograph of one of the slabs was given in the third edition of the Wonders of Geology, 1839.

[610] Gonio-pholis:—angle-scute. Brit. Assoc. Rep. 1841, p. 72. Both the slabs of the Swanage specimen are admirably arranged in the same case in the British Museum, with bones and scutes of this reptile from Tilgate Forest; there can be no doubt that the entire lower jaw of the Swanage reptile might have been obtained if the quarry-men had taken the precaution of examining the adjoining block of stone.

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