Body lizard-like; limbs large and well-ossified, mandibular and maxillary teeth conical, grooved at the apex. Abdominal scales slender and rod-like.
Fritschia curtidentata Dawson.
Dawson, Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. London, 1882, pt. II, p. 641, pl. 43, figs. 110-128.
Dawson, Am. Jour. Sci. (3), XII, p. 444, 1876.
Type: Specimen No. 3061-7, Peter Redpath Museum, McGill University. There is also specimen No. R 449, in the British Museum ([393, pt. IV, p. 225]).
Horizon and locality: Coal formation at the South Joggins, Nova Scotia.
Represented by 2 specimens ([plate 8]). Bones of the head very smooth, only a few microscopic punctures. Teeth conical, somewhat obtuse, striated at the inner side of the apices; there are about 30 in each ramus of the mandible, and about 27 in the maxillary bone. Teeth implanted in a furrow. Vertebræ short and well ossified, 3 in 1 cm. Ribs strong, curved, about 1 cm. in length. Limbs robust, the bones better ossified than in any other known species from Nova Scotia. Toes of foot probably 5, central ones long and slender. Interclavicle of moderate size and somewhat rounded. Ventral scutellæ needle-like.
| Length of mandible (imperfect) | 2.1 | cm. |
| Length of maxilla | 2 | cm. |
| Length of rib | 1 | cm. |
| Length of humerus | 2 | cm. |
| Length of femur | 2.4 | cm. |
| Length of radius and ulna | 1 | cm. |
| Length of toe in foot | 7 | cm. |
| 8 teeth in 5 mm. | ||