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[[underline]] Description of the type-skull: [[/underline]]
[[underline]] [[strikethrough]] General Considerations [[/strikethrough]] [[/underline]]

[[underlined]] Inferior aspect [[/underlined]] the basis of the skull presents a broad, rather feebly, concave surface bounded anteriorly and posteriorly, respectively, and laterally by by the broad [[insertion]] ^ occipito [[/insertion]] mastoid processes. The concavity, is deepest in the median line and grows  shallower gradually [[image: mark to show this should read "gradually shallower"]] to the mastoids. This even concavity is due in part to the almost complete obliteration  of the tympanic bullae and basal foramina. [[insertion]] and to the absence of the transverse rugosities for the insertion of the [[underline]] rectus anticus [[/underline]] muscles, which were either [[strikethrough]] lattle [[/strikethrough]] little developed or have been obliterated. [[/insertion]]  The median, longitudinal ridge [[strikethrough]] s [[/strikethrough]] adjoining the foramen magnum, which is [[strikethrough]] presente [[/strikethrough]] characteristic of all sea-lion skulls, is present, [[overwritten]] f [[/overwritten]] but feebly developed, [[strikethrough]] but while the [[strikethrough]] trans [[/strikethrough]] transverse ridges for the insertin of the [[underline]] rectus anticus [[/underline]] muscles are not visible. [[/strikethrough]]

Anteriorly, the basal surface joins the roof of the posterior nares, which is rather deeply concave, and bounded by the thick [[strikethrough]] bio [[/strikethough]] pterygoid walls. [[insertion]] The nares are not floored over by a posterior extension of the bony palate, as in [[underlined]] Otaria [[/underline]], but are open far forward, as in [[underline]] Eumetopias [[/underline]] & [[underline]] Zalophus [[/underlined]] & other otarids. [[/insertion]] External to the [[strikethrough]] se [[/strikethrough]] [[insertion]] ^ pterygoid [[/insertion]] walls are the very broad glenoid fossae of the squamosal, which [[strikethrough]] are [[/strikethrough]] [[insertion]] resemble those of [[underline]] Eumetopias [[/underline]] but are [[/insertion]] somewhat directed backward.

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Page seems to be cut off on the bottom. He writes periods like a -, and sometimes crosses his 't's later. Sorry for all the [[?]]