Extinct monsters : a popular account of some of the larger forms of ancient animal life (1893)
Hutchinson, H. N. (Henry Neville), 1856-1927 · New York : Appleton · leaf 210
In the year 1873 was discovered, in the lithographic stone of Bavaria, at Eichstadt, a very beautiful new form of Pterodactyl. This was the Rhamphorhynchus phyllurus. The specimen is in a remarkable state of preservation ; for the bones of the skeleton are nearly all in position, while those of… … Fig. 35. — Rhamphorhynchus phyllurus, with delicate impressions of the flying membranes. (After Marsh.) covery of this valuable specimen attracted much attention at the time. It was bought, by telegram, for Professor Marsh, and so secured for the Yale College Museum ; but a cast may be seen at…
Paleontology
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