. The story of the amphibians and the reptiles. Amphibians; Reptiles. 62 STORY OF THE AMPHIBIANS forms, it is said, which did not have the skull so com- pletely roofed with bone. Fig. 30 is also a cut of a small salamanderlike form which is, however, still a labyrinthodont, when its teeth are examined. Note that it has slight ribs, and that the skull-roof is com- plete. It is found in the more modern upper car- boniferous, and it looks as though it was getting. Fig. 31.—Mastodonsaurus Joegeri. near to the living kinds. But higher still and more recent (in the Triassic) there lived a monster wi
. The story of the amphibians and the reptiles. Amphibians; Reptiles. 62 STORY OF THE AMPHIBIANS forms, it is said, which did not have the skull so com- pletely roofed with bone. Fig. 30 is also a cut of a small salamanderlike form which is, however, still a labyrinthodont, when its teeth are examined. Note that it has slight ribs, and that the skull-roof is com- plete. It is found in the more modern upper car- boniferous, and it looks as though it was getting. Fig. 31.—Mastodonsaurus Joegeri. near to the living kinds. But higher still and more recent (in the Triassic) there lived a monster with a head two feet wide and three feet long (see Fig. 31). It was called Mastodonsav/rus, and Fig. 32 is a cut of the head and jaws of Trematosaurus—though neither were really saurians. But saurians (lizard- like reptiles) and amphibians had not got so far. 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 Baskett, James Newton, 1849-; Ditmars, Raymond Lee, 1876-1942. joint author. New York, D. Appleton and Company
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