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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 View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: served and very complete skeletons ofdifferent species of ichthyosaurs from the Jurassic deposits ofWiirtemberg, in which remains of these animals occur in great 112 WATER REPTILES OF THE PAST AND PRESENT profusion. His researches, and those of several authors since then,supplementing and confirming or disproving those of the manyobservers made during the preceding seventy years, have finallydetermined almost perfectly the complete structure of the moretypical ichthyosaurs, enabling us to infer not a little as to theirhabits and distribution in the old Jurassic oceans. Within thepast few years the discoveries of Professor J. C. Merriam of Cali-fornia have likewise added greatly to our knowledge of the earlierichthyosaurs. It may now truthfully be said that of no group ofextinct reptiles do we have a more complete and satisfactory knowl-edge than of the ichthyosaurs. Nevertheless we have yet very much more to learn about theorder Ichthyosauria as a whole—whence they came and how they Text Appearing After Image: Fig. 52.—Ichthyosaurus quadricissus.museum, from Dr. Dreverman. Photograph of specimen in Senckenberg originated; what their nearest kin were among other reptiles; andespecially, more about the connecting links between them andterrestrial reptiles. They have, as an order, so isolated a position,are so widely separated from all other reptiles in structure, that theyhave long been a puzzle to paleontologists. Like the whales andother cetaceans among mammals, we know the ichthyosaurs wellin the plenitude of their power and the fulness of their development,but have yet only an imperfect knowledge of their earlier history,and none whatever of their earliest. However, as will be seenfarther on, the recent discoveries by Merriam have shed much lighton some of the stages of their evolution. So nearly perfectly wereall the later ichthyosaurs adapted to their life in the water that itwas believed by nearly all paleontologists until about a score of years ICHTHYOSAURIA 3 ago that they had desc Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
Identifier: annalsofmedicalh01pack (find matches) Title: Annals of medical history Year: 1917 (1910s) Authors: Packard, Francis R. (Francis Randolph), 1870-1950 Subjects: Medicine Publisher: New York P.B. Hoeber Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: ail strongly Hexed, and the toescontracted and appressed. The whole atti-tude strongly suggests a spastic distress,possibly brought on by some form ofpoisoning of the central nervous system,from infection or the deglutition of somepoisonous substance. 14. Osteomalacia is evidently the causeof the hypertrophy of the bones of Lim-nocyron potens, an early carnivore from theWashakie Eocene of Wyoming, nearly3,000,000 years old. MATERIALS AND METHODS The material described in the presentpaper has been loaned the writer lor de-scription by the Field Museum of Chii Osborn: Hull. Amcr. \lus. Natl. Hist., 1917,vol. 35. !>• 733. P>- 28. Studies in Paleopathology 393 by the American Museum of Natural His-tory of New York City, by Walker Museumof the University of Chicago, and by the Uni-versity of Kansas Natural History Museum. made by the well-known petrographic meth-ods so common in all geological labora-tories. The diagnoses, where they are at-tempted, arc made from comparisons of the Text Appearing After Image: Fig. 20. The skeleton of Strutbiomimus altus, a small dinosaur from the BeliyRiver series (Cretaceous), Red Deer River, Alberta, Canada, now regarded as ofapproximately the same age as the Judith River series. The unique feature ofthe skull is the total absence of teeth, with a size of skull one-third larger thanthe ostrich and a length of body of about fifteen feet. The position of the skeletonis decidedly that of the opisthotonos which may be regarded as an indication ofdisease. (After Osborn). A beautiful specimen of an osteoma, theonly one known so far, on the vertebra of aKansas Cretaceous mosasaur, was given thewriter by Dr. J. M. Armstrong of St. Paul.The writer expresses his obligations to thegentlemen connected with the above-men-tioned institutions and to Dr. Armstrong.The methods used are a combination ofprocedures in the various lines involved.Microscopic sections, which can be madethin enough for immersion lens study, are material with similar lesions in recent hu-man mat Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
Skeletal reconstruction of Limusaurus inextricabilis. Matches proportions in published skeletal reconstruction by Gregory S. Paul in the 2016 book The Princeton Field Guide to Dinosaurs.