Geology and Inhabitants of the Ancient World

Name: Geology and Inhabitants of the Ancient World
Author: Owen, Richard

Owen, Richard

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[Illustration: GEOLOGY AND INHABITANTS OF THE ANCIENT WORLD.
    THE EXTINCT ANIMALS RESTORED BY B. WATERHOUSE HAWKINS. F.G.S. F.L.S.
    PUBLISHED FOR THE CRYSTAL PALACE LIBRARY, BY BRADBURY & EVANS, 11,
    BOUVERIE ST.
    MACLURE & CO. LITH. TO THE QUEEN.]




                        GEOLOGY AND INHABITANTS
                                 OF THE
                             ANCIENT WORLD.


                              DESCRIBED BY
                          RICHARD OWEN, F.R.S.


            THE ANIMALS CONSTRUCTED BY B. W. HAWKINS, F.G.S.


                        CRYSTAL PALACE LIBRARY,
                                  AND
             BRADBURY & EVANS, 11, BOUVERIE STREET, LONDON.
                                 1854.

                          BRADBURY AND EVANS,
                PRINTERS TO THE CRYSTAL PALACE COMPANY,
                              WHITEFRIARS.




                               CONTENTS.


                                                                    PAGE
  INTRODUCTION                                                         5
      THE SECONDARY ISLAND                                             7
  CHALK FORMATION                                                      9
      THE MOSASAURUS                                                  10
      THE PTERODACTYLE                                                11
  WEALDEN FORMATION                                                   14
      THE IGUANODON                                                   14
      THE HYLÆOSAURUS                                                 17
  OOLITE FORMATION                                                    19
      THE MEGALOSAURUS                                                19
      PTERODACTYLES OF THE OOLITE                                     22
      TELEOSAURUS                                                     22
  LIAS FORMATION                                                      25
      ENALIOSAURIA                                                    25
      THE ICHTHYOSAURUS                                               25
      ICHTHYOSAURUS PLATYODON                                         29
      ICHTHYOSAURUS TENUIROSTRIS                                      30
      ICHTHYOSAURUS COMMUNIS                                          30
      PLESIOSAURUS                                                    31
      PLESIOSAURUS MACROCEPHALUS                                      31
      PLESIOSAURUS DOLICHODEIRUS                                      32
      PLESIOSAURUS HAWKINSII                                          33
  NEW RED SANDSTONE                                                   35
      BATRACHIA                                                       35
      LABYRINTHODON SALAMANDROIDES                                    36
      LABYRINTHODON PACHYGNATHUS                                      38
      DICYNODON                                                       38

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