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they [[strikethrough]] processes [[/strikethrough]] have not, however, more than a slight indication of the prominent rounded ridge occupying [[strikethrough]] the distal and portion [[/strikethrough]] Their prosterior and distal surface in the genus, and in that respect more resemble those of [[underlined]] Otaria [[/underlined]].
It has already been remarked that the under surface of the base occipital [[strikethrough]] presents a [[/strikethrough]] of Ponlotea is broad & [[insertion]] ^ nearly [[/insertion]] flat, in contrast with that of existing genera [[strikethrough]] , [[/strikethrough]] due in part to the feeble development of [[state?]] median ridge immediately anterior to the foramen magnum, and in part to the obliteration of the foramen lacerum posterius. On the right side, the latter foramen can be traced, but is clogged by a piece of dense bone which must belong elsewhere. The upper surface of the basioccipital within the brain-case, on this side, has been filled with plaster, but on the left side the outlines of the foramen lacerum posterius are traceable.
The [[insertion]] ^ median [[/insertion]] depression on the upper surface * is about 

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* Possibly a vascular recess, according to Murie

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as deep as in [[underline]] Otaria [[/underline]]; more so than in [[underline]] Eumetopias [[/underline]] and much less than in [[underline]] Zalophus [[/underline]] and [[underline]] Callotaria Sphenoid [[/underline]]. The inferior surface of the [[insertion]] ^ body of the [[/insertion]] sphenoid is on the same general plane with the basioccipital. Depressions marking the positin of the

Transcription Notes:
Murie, James