File:Image from page 85 of "Water reptiles of the past and present" (1914) (14749985076).jpg
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DescriptionImage from page 85 of "Water reptiles of the past and present" (1914) (14749985076).jpg |
Identifier: waterreptilesofp1914will Title: Water reptiles of the past and present Year: 1914 (1910s) Authors: Williston, Samuel Wendell, 1851-1918 Subjects: Aquatic reptiles Publisher: Chicago, Ill., The University of Chicago Press Contributing Library: Boston Public Library Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library
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Text Appearing After Image: (1) o & fa H <T) i* n 3 kJ Uh m SAUROPTERYGIA 75 In quick succession there followed many other discoveries of plesiosaurs, not only in England but elsewhere in Europe. The famous English anatomist and paleontologist, Sir Richard Owen,to whom we owe, perhaps, more than to anyone else our present knowledge of these animals, the eccentric Hawkins of England, the learned von Meyer of Germany, and, in later times, more especially Seeley and Andrews of England, Fraas of Germany, Bogalobou and Riabanin of Russia, as well as many others, have brought to light during the past century many and varied forms of these sea-reptiles. Blaineville in 1835 gave to the plesiosaurs an ordinal rank under the class Ichthyosauria, and even the astute Owen in 1839 united them with the ichthyosaurs as a suborder of his Enaliosauria, or sea-saurians. He called them Sauropterygia, or reptile-finned, and these terms, Enaliosauria, Ichthyopterygia,and Sauropterygia, have long persisted in works on natural history be
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