Extinct monsters and creatures of other days: a popular account of some of the larger forms of ancient animal life (1911)
Hutchinson, H. N. (Henry Neville), 1856-1927 · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 192
ecimen is to be seen at the Xatural History Museum (Wall-case 9). Like the Rhynchosaiirns, it had a broadly triangular form of skull, with the orbits for tlie eyes directed upwards, and the jaws prolonged into a sharp curved beak, so that it comes into the same order of “ beak-headed lizards.” But,… … Fig. 38. — Front view of skull of Elginia 7nirabilis, as restored from natural moulds in tlie Elgin Sandstone, by Mr. E. T. Newton. with some of the limb-bones. We have therefore ventured on a restoration by Mr. Smit (see Plate IX.), in order to give the reader an idea of its curious head and…
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