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.

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Some Early Mammals and the Story of the Horse: Hyracotherium

R and part of a fifth. It had a wide range in America and Europe. The next stage is seen in the Hyracotherium (see Fig. 88), also known as Protorohippus. Its skull and forefoot are shown in Fig. 89. A nearly complete specimen was found by Dr. J. L. Wortman in the Big Horn Mountains of North Wyoming. It Senega ا ما FIG. 88. Skeleton of Hyracotherium venticolum, from Eocene strata, North America. (After Cope.) A SOME EARLY MAMMALS was a graceful little creature about fourteen inches (four and 2. 1. 2. 3. 1. 5 A 4 4. 5.

known as Protorohippus. Its skull and forefoot are shown in
known as Protorohippus. Its skull and forefoot are shown in

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