. The Open court. ///M^ 0^f\. Fig. III. MASTODONOSAURUS AND • HYPERODArEDOX. Extinct European descendants of Stegocephalia. (From Ani-mals Before Man in Nortli America, by Frederic A. Lucas.) shows marked increase in size and adaptation to an exclusivelyterrestrial life during the Permian period, which followed the Car-boniferous, individuals of the sub-order having attained a length often feet—the largest of the American amphibians—and a muchgreater length was attained by the adults of an European the jungles of that far-ofif, Carboniferous period lie buriedthe carbon remnants of
. The Open court. ///M^ 0^f\. Fig. III. MASTODONOSAURUS AND • HYPERODArEDOX. Extinct European descendants of Stegocephalia. (From Ani-mals Before Man in Nortli America, by Frederic A. Lucas.) shows marked increase in size and adaptation to an exclusivelyterrestrial life during the Permian period, which followed the Car-boniferous, individuals of the sub-order having attained a length often feet—the largest of the American amphibians—and a muchgreater length was attained by the adults of an European the jungles of that far-ofif, Carboniferous period lie buriedthe carbon remnants of an atmosphere once heavily laden withcarbon dioxide. Never again was rainfall to be so universally tor-rential ; never again was plant life to be so luxuriant and dense, tropical flora of to-day is only a faint reminder of the 650 Till. (i1i:n (I UK I verdure of that distant period, doomed to fall in tangled masses, andsink beneath the erosive deposits of the relentless sea. and becomethe vast storehouses
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