On some extinct reptiles and batrachia from the Judith River and Fox Hills beds of Montana
Author
Cope, E. D.
text
Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia
1876
1876-12-31
28
340
359
journal article
26021
10.5281/zenodo.3368363
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3368363
Laelaps laevifrons
,
sp. nov.
A tooth half the size of those
referred to
the
L
. hazenianus
, and exceeding
by
a little the largest of those of
L
. explanatus
, presants such
characters
as induce
me
to believe that it belongs to a species distinct from
either
. It is of the elongate aeurninnte form of some of those referred
to
the
L
.
incrassatus
, and
both
sides are convex, but not equally so.
A
shallowly
concave
plane occupies the middle of the
more convex
side. The
posterior
cutting edge is denticulate
to
the base, but the anterior, though of the same form as in the other species, and unworn, is absolutely smooth. In this respect it differs from the
other
species, excepting
L falculus
. The denticulations are finer than those of any other species, measuring
M
..00020; in
L
. explanatus
they measure
M
..00022.