better preserved and showed several new features not present in the holotype. These include a contact between the maxilla and both the prefrontal and the quadratojugals. An anterior inclination of the occiput and the exclusion of the quadratojugal from the temporal fenestra are also clear in this specimen. However, Spindler et al. (2018) transferred this aggregation to the separate species Microvaranops parentis. Skull morphology Many aspects of the skull structure are apparent between the two fossils. The overall shape is triangular and narrow, typical of Varanopids. H. scholtzi’s snout is made up of the premaxilla bone. A long narrow rectangular process of the naris along the antorbital region forms a straight dorsal border with the external naris. Where the premaxilla meets with the naris there is a straight suture instead of the Varanopid typical V shaped one. The jugal and quadratojugal have pinched tubercular ornamentation on the lateral sides. The quadratojugal has the elongated and slender shape distinct to the Varanopids, as well as a slender groove on the dorsal edge. This serves as an attachment for the squamosal, which extends anteriorly under the lateral temporal fenestra. The right jugal is almost completely preserved with clear postorbital and subtemporal rami and a large tubercle near the ventral edge. The vomers are long and slender with marginal teeth present on the medial edge of the right vomer. H. scholtzi has ventrally preserved palantines that have extending diagonally across. Near the posterior edge of the internal naris they bifurcate. Suborbital fenestrae could not have been supported by the palantines due to their width. Presence of this kind of fenestrae are seen in diapsids but absent in basal synapsids. The parabasisphenoid has a cultriform process, the extended process at the anterior end of the braincase, that is transversely broad with a deep parabolic groove between cristae ventrolaterals. These are ridges formed by the lateral edges of the bones. Posteriorly paired depressions of the parabasisphenoid were likely for cervical muscle attachments. Small alveoli for teeth are also present on a continuous plate ventrally on the cultriform process. Reisz (2007) describe a posterior coronoid, which was originally described as the prearticular by Carroll (1976). An anterior coronoid is also described by Reisz which was originally described as the splenial by Broom (1907). The angular and surangular ornamentation are prolate and pustolous shaped tubercles [R]. Typical of Varanopids the ceratohyal is elongated and slender, acting like