The Medals of Creation, Volumes 1 and 2 / First Lessons in Geology and the Study of Organic Remains

by Gideon Algernon Mantell

Lign. 235. Telerpeton Elginense (Mantell). Dev. Elgin.
Impression of the skeleton (nat. size); showing the outline of the vertebral column, ribs, pelvis, femora, tibiæ and fibulæ, part of the caudal series of vertebræ, the left humerus, radius, and ulna, imperfect traces of the right anterior extremity, and obscure indications of part of the cranium.

a.	The remains of the cranium.
b, b.	Imprints of portions of the anterior extremities.
c, c.	Well-defined impressions of the thigh-bones and leg-bones, with an obscure sub-quadrangular pelvis.
1.	One of the teeth: nat. size and mag.

The structure of this reptilian skeleton, as far as the specimen can serve to show, indicates a peculiar type of organization, in which, as in numerous other extinct forms, in this, as in other Classes, osteological characters are associated which in existing oviparous quadrupeds are restricted to distinct orders and genera.

Lign. 236.
Telerpeton Elginense (Mantell).
Outline of the restored form of the original reptile: ¹/₂ nat.