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Title: Guide to the nature treasures of New York city; American museum of natural history, New York aquarium, New York zoölogicl park and Botanical garden, Brooklyn museum, Botanic garden and Children's museum
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Pindar, George N Pearson, Mabel H Fischer, George Clyde, 1878-
Subjects: American Museum of Natural History New York Aquarium New York Botanical Garden Brooklyn Museum Brooklyn Botanic Garden Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences. Children's Museum
Publisher: (New York) Pub. for the American museum of natural history by C. Scribner's sons
Contributing Library: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
Digitizing Sponsor: Metropolitan New York Library Council - METRO

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mensin the hall previously visited. The dinosaurs were the greatterrestrial vertebrates of their day, the Age of Reptiles(3,000,000 to 10,000,000 years ago), and there was a greatvariety of forms, but all had long hind limbs and long andgenerally massive tail.2 Dominant over other specimens is the amphibious dino-saur Brontosaurus, mounted in the center of the hall. Thisspecimen is sixty-six feet eight inches in length, sixteen feetin height, and the animal is estimated to have weighedthirty-five tons. Beside it is a fossilized tree trunk, part ofit carbonized or turned into coal, while the rest is silicifiedor turned into stone. At the right is the large carnivorous dinosaur Allosaurus,mounted to represent the animal feeding on the carcass ofa Brontosaurus. At the left of Brontosaurus stand twospecimens of the duck-bill dinosaur Trachodon, and imme-diately in front of them is an extraordinary mummifiedspecimen of the same species, in which a large part of the 20 Dinosaurs —.25. 104
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BRONTOSAURUS SMILODON Wi 105 THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY skin, showing its texture, is preserved. Near-by are speci-mens of Pterodactyls, or flying reptiles, and a mountedspecimen of a peculiar marine bird, Hesperornis regalis,from the Cretaceous of Kansas. This bird, like the moreancient Archceopteryx, which is the earliest bird known, hada row of small teeth in the jaws, a reminiscence of its rep-tilian ancestry, but it had lost the long reptilian tail whichArchceopteryx still preserved. Immediately at the right of the entrance are the newlydiscovered and recently mounted skeletons from the Creta-ceous of Alberta, Canada, of the crested duck-bill dinosaurSaurolophus, a herbivorous reptile, the helmet duck-billdinosaur Corythosaurus, with its crested head similar tothat of a cassowary, the horned dinosaur Monoclonius andthe bird-like dinosaur Ornithomimus. On the south side of the hall is the finest collection offossil turtles in any museum, also specimens of finbacklizard

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