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Transcription
head & snout - The head is elongate square
ended - that edges round off gradually
at the end of the snout - proximally
the sides of the snout swell out to ----
the eye. On the top, from the base of the
skull to the snout its sections is very
slightly concave - that is, the base of the skull
& the snout are a trifle higher than the
central portion - The snout in the center
is 141 wide; it is 324 deep & the width of
the upper portion of its snout is 91.
A little about the center of the snout two
deep [illegible] wide depressions run back-
ward & downward - the width of the snout
between the ends of these depressions is
69 - The depressions mark the anterior
half of the sphenaceth "case"; it becomes
narrower & shallower as they go back-
ward, finally being lost [crossed out], on
its very top of the snout there is a
small rounded eminence, on the left
side of which is the blowhole - A cross
section of the snout looks like this:
- top
1/9 cent. from the corner of the
t mouth forwards there is an
[illegible]
both sides of the upper lips a marked
transverse depression or crenature
2 or 3 inches long.
In the very center of the top of snout
is a shallow depression running
bottom