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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 368

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EXTINCT MONSTERS 248 other times a second extra digit has been found, as well as those above mentioned, which may be either smaller or larger. Coming now to the hind feet, we find that an extra toe may sometimes be present on one or both of them, and always on the inside. As a rule, however, these… … Fia. 91. —Eight-toed Cuban horse. (After Marsh.) horse from Cuba, in which the extra toe is well developed on all four limbs. This animal was examined by Professor Marsh during its lifetime. Occasionally the hind feet have two extra toes, while the fore feet have only one, as in the horse from…

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