Extinct Monsters and Creatures of Other Days

The book that introduced the public to dinosaurs: sea-lizards, flying dragons, mammoths and the first horse, drawn from life by J. Smit and told by a clergyman-geologist who thought the museum's 'relics of a former world' deserved a storyteller.

Whales and Wombats, Etc

6 pages in this part of Extinct Monsters.

Whales and Wombats, Etc

PLATE LIST OF PLATES I. Footprints of Dinosaurs II. Sea-scorpions III. Skeleton of Ichthyosaurus tenuirostris TO FACE PAGE 44 53 61 IV…

Whales and Wombats, Etc: Dinosaur

XII. (1) Model of Pareiasaurus karpinskii (by Prof. Amalitzky). (2) Skeleton of Pareiasaurus karpinskii . 116 XIII. Model of Naosaurus…

Whales and Wombats, Etc: Anomodont

PAGE 24. Restoration of skeleton of Amphibamus grandiceps 25. Skull of a Labyrinthodont, Cyclotosaurus (under side) 103 26. Anomodont…

Whales and Wombats, Etc: Front

PAGE 51. Neck vertebræ of Brontosaurus. 1. Front view. 2. Back view 52. Head of Diplodocus. 1. Side view. 2. Front view 153 • • 53. Tooth…

Whales and Wombats, Etc: Diprotodon

PAGE 109. Skeleton of Scelidotherium 289 110. Head of Squalodon 299 111. Skull of thick-toothed Grampus, Pseudorca crassidens 300 • • 112…

Whales and Wombats, Etc: Cuvier

We shall not, however, dwell at any length on the scenery, or the vegetation that clothed the landscape at different periods; for these…

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