A Guide to the Fossil Reptiles, Amphibians, and Fishes; In the Department of Geology and Palaeontology in the British Museum (Natural History), Cromwell Road, London, S.W
A Guide to the Fossil Reptiles, Amphibians, and Fishes; In the Department of Geology and Palaeontology in the British Museum (Natural History), Cromwell Road, London, S.W.
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 Excerpt: ...thick bony rings like those of the extinct South American armadillo, Glyptodon. As Miolania must have been a land-animal, its discovery in regions so remote as Australia and South America is sometimes cited as one proof of the former existence of a great Antarctic continent uniting the lands in question. Sub-order 4.- ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 Excerpt: ...thick bony rings like those of the extinct South American armadillo, Glyptodon. As Miolania must have been a land-animal, its discovery in regions so remote as Australia and South America is sometimes cited as one proof of the former existence of a great Antarctic continent uniting the lands in question. Sub-order 4.--Amphichelydia. Wall-case Most of the Jurassic and Wealden Chelonia are somewhat 18. intermediate between the Cryptodira and Pleurodira, and have been provisionally placed in a separate sub-order. Among typical examples may be mentioned Pleurosternum from the Purbeck Beds of Swanage and Platychelys from the Lithographic Stone (Kimmeridgian) of Bavaria (Wallcase 19). A. Miolania argentina, from the supposed Cretaceous of Chubut, Patagonia. B. Miolania oweni, from the Pleistocene of Queensland. (Wall-case 19.) To/ace p. 44. GALLERIES Nos. 4, 5.--FOSSIL AMPHIBIANS. The frogs, newts, salamanders and their allies are inter-Wall-case mediate in all essential respects between reptiles and fishes. Table9, aseg It is therefore interesting to note that the Class Amphibia, Jj v to which they belong, attained most importance in Carboniferous and Permian times, between the Devonian period, when fishes were the highest kind of life, and the Triassic period, when the " Age of Eeptiles " dawned. Since Triassic times, indeed, the Amphibia seem to have been degenerate and insignificant animals, and the geological record is so incomplete that it furnishes none of the links connecting these later Orders with the Order which represented the Class in its prime. Class IV.--AMPHIBIA. Order I.--ANURA or ECAUDATA. The frogs and toads, or tailless Amphibians, seem to have Table-case undergone scarcely any essential change since the Eocene and tr. Oligocene perio...
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