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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PLATE LIST OF PLATES I. Footprints of Dinosaurs II. Sea-scorpions III. Skeleton of Ichthyosaurus tenuirostris TO FACE PAGE 44 53 61 IV. Fish-lizards. Lias period 65 V. Skeleton of young Plesiosaur 79 VI. Long-necked Sea-lizard 83 .

VII. Amphibians of the Coal-forest and Permian periods 95 VIII. Ptyonius (two species) 100 IX. Reptiles and an amphibian of the New Red Sandstone period X. (1) Skull of Dicynodon, palatal aspect. (2) Skull of Dicynodon 105 • Trautschoeldi 108 XI. (1) Skeleton of Inostransevia alexandri. (2) Skull of Inostransevia alexandri 112 .

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