. Animals of the past. Paleontology. IMPRESSIONS OF THE PAST 47 we learn that when these prints were made, or shortly after, a strong wind blew from the southeast, for on that face of the ridges bound- ing the margin of each big footprint, we find sand that lodged against the squeezed-up mud and stuck there to serve as a perpetual record of the direction of the wind. REFERENCES Almost every museuvi has some specimen of the Con- necticut Valley footprints, hut the largest and finest col- lections are in the museians of Amherst College, Mass., and Yale University, although, oicing to lack of roo
. Animals of the past. Paleontology. IMPRESSIONS OF THE PAST 47 we learn that when these prints were made, or shortly after, a strong wind blew from the southeast, for on that face of the ridges bound- ing the margin of each big footprint, we find sand that lodged against the squeezed-up mud and stuck there to serve as a perpetual record of the direction of the wind. REFERENCES Almost every museuvi has some specimen of the Con- necticut Valley footprints, hut the largest and finest col- lections are in the museians of Amherst College, Mass., and Yale University, although, oicing to lack of room, only a few of the Yale specimens are on exhibition. The collection at Amherst comprises most of the types described by Professor E. Hitchcock in his '•^ Ichnology of New England," a work in two fully illustrated quarto volumes. Other footprints are described and figured by Dr. J. Deane in ^'?Ichnographs from the Sandstone of the Connecticut River.''''. Fig. 8. — The Track of a Three-toed 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 Lucas, Frederic A. (Frederic Augustus), 1852-1929. New York, McClure, Phillips & Co.
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