. Animals before man in North America; their lives and times. Paleontology. Lower tooth-plate of a cochliodont shark. Somewhat reduced. (After Worthen.) shell, these have been termed cochliodont. Teeth like these were evidently fitted only for crushing, and for crushing comparatively fragile things at that, so that these cochliodonts prob- ably lived on crabs or thin-shelled mollusks, possibly on the abundant brachiopods. The structure of this tooth-pi ate is very much like 106. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for reada
. Animals before man in North America; their lives and times. Paleontology. Lower tooth-plate of a cochliodont shark. Somewhat reduced. (After Worthen.) shell, these have been termed cochliodont. Teeth like these were evidently fitted only for crushing, and for crushing comparatively fragile things at that, so that these cochliodonts prob- ably lived on crabs or thin-shelled mollusks, possibly on the abundant brachiopods. The structure of this tooth-pi ate is very much like 106. 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, D. Appleton and company
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