[Twelve papers on fossil saurians].

Cape Town, The South African Museum, 1953-1956. Thick 8vo (23.8 x 16.3 cm). Later green half cloth over green linen boards. Gilt title on the spine. = This convolute, mainly consisting of the Museum's Annals volumes 42 and 43, contain the following papers on Mesozoic reptiles: A note on some rhynchosaurian remains from Tanganyika Territory (four pp., two groups of text figures); Report on a collection of fossil reptilian bones from Tanganyika Territory (14 pp., seven groups of text figures); A suggested clarification of the taxonomic status of the South African titanosuchians (ten pp., nine plates, including reconstructions of the animals); The gorgonopsians, Aelorugnathus microdon and Hipposaurus boonstrai reconstructed (three pp., seven plates, including reconstructions of the animals); The cranial morphology and taxonomy of the tapinocephalid genus Struthiocephalus (22 pp., seven text figures, one plate); The lower jaw articulatory region in some pristerognathid therocephalians (nine pp., four groups of text figures); The pristognathid therocephalians from the Tapinocephalus-Zone in the South African Museum (43 pp., 22 groups of text figures); The cranial structure of the titanosuchian: Anteosaurus (40 pp., 22 large text figures); The smallest titanosuchid yet recovered from the Karroo (eight pp., five groups of/single text figures, one plate); Paraneosaurus, Gen. Nov.: a titanosuchan reptile (three pp., two text figures); The skull of Tapinocephalus and its nearest relatives (34 pp., 17 groups of text figures, one plate); Pareisauriër-studies. Deel XII. 'n Lewensrekonstruksie van Bradysaurus seeleyi (two pp., plate). Together they take the majority of the pages and plates in this volume. Cancelled stamp on first half title, otherwise a very good, clean copy.