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... living tropical turtles. A sea-snake, which must have been thirteen feet long, of the genus Palaeophis before mentioned, has also been described by Professor Owen from Sheppey, of a different species from that of Bracklesham, and called Palaeophis toliapicus. A true crocodile, also, Crocodilus toliapicus, and another saurian more nearly allied to the gavial, accompany the above fossils; also the relics of several birds and quadrupeds. One of these last belongs to the new genus Hyracotherium of Owen, of the ... — The Student's Elements of Geology • Sir Charles Lyell |