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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 258

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EXTINCT MONSTERS 1 68 well-known Iguanodon. It is called by Professor Marsh, Clao- saurus ; and it represents a whole family of herbivorous Dinosaurs. In length it was nearly thirty feet, and must have stood nearly fifteen feet high. The remains of this remarkable creature were discovered by two of… … Fig. 57. — 1. Skull of Claosaurus annectens, side view. 2. The same, front view. (After Marsh.) beds of Wyoming, associated with those of the still more strange Triceratops, and also of some diminutive mammals lately dis- covered. The most important feature in the skeleton of the Claosaurus is the…

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