. Chamber's scientific reader : illustrated with wood engravings. Readers. DEVONIAN SYSTEM. 159 obtained, one of which is a huge kind of crab, sometimes six feet long, with terrible-looking toothed claws, called the Pterygotus1 or ear-wing. Eeptiles are also found, two very large lizards being most frequent. But by far the most numerous specimens of ancient life are gigantic fishes. These creatures are all covered with hard bony scales, burnished with enamel, with fierce teeth, and great fins armed with long sharp spines, with which they defended themselves or attacked their Please n
. Chamber's scientific reader : illustrated with wood engravings. Readers. DEVONIAN SYSTEM. 159 obtained, one of which is a huge kind of crab, sometimes six feet long, with terrible-looking toothed claws, called the Pterygotus1 or ear-wing. Eeptiles are also found, two very large lizards being most frequent. But by far the most numerous specimens of ancient life are gigantic fishes. These creatures are all covered with hard bony scales, burnished with enamel, with fierce teeth, and great fins armed with long sharp spines, with which they defended themselves or attacked their 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 London : W. & R. Chambers
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