Mososaurus. Huge skull found in a quarry at Fort St Peter near Maastricht, Netherlands, in 1780. From the size of the jaw, which measured metres

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Mososaurus. Huge skull found in a quarry at Fort St Peter near Maastricht, Netherlands, in 1780. From the size of the jaw, which measured metres, it was calculated that the whole animal must have been metres. From The Animal Kingdom by George Cuvier (London, 1830). Engraving.

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