On a new species of trionx from the miocene of Malta and a chelonian scapula from the London clay

Abstract

The author has brought forward to Society evidence of Oriental affinities in a member of the Chelonian family trionychida, of which the remains have been obtained from the Miocene of Malta. The specimen forming the subject of this part of the paper is one of a small collection brought from Malta by Dr. John Murray, and presented by him to the British (Natural History) Museum. It consists of a portion of the middle and right half of the anterior region of the carapace of a large Ohelonian referable to the family Trionychide.