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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: Fig. 30.—Restoration of Casea, a theromorph reptile from the Permian of Texas,about four feet long. from nearly corresponding rocks in southern Kansas, plesiosaurs,crocodiles, turtles, and carnivorous dinosaurs are known fromsparse remains. Doubtless the Potomac beds of Virginia, whichhave yielded bones of various dinosaurs, are also of LowerCretaceous age. With the exception of a single vertebra of doubtful affinitiesand the cast of a turtle-shell no vertebrate fossils have everbeen discovered in the extensive sandstones of Dakota age, thelowermost of the Upper Cretaceous. From the next horizon abovethe Dakota, the Benton Cretaceous, chiefly marine limestones, at 56 WATER REPTILES OF THE PAST AND PRESENT least three genera of plesiosaurs are known from Kansas, Texas,and Arkansas, with two or three more from the limestone shalesof Wyoming. A few specimens of armored dinosaurs, two generaof ancient crocodiles, nearly the last of their kind, some marineturtles, and a few vertebrae of
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