Crocodile species, possibly the mugger crocodile, Crocodylus palustris, of Iran to India. Fanciful image of a chimera. De Crocodilo Terrestri, Aegyptico vel Arabico. Woodcut engraving after an illustration by Lucas Schan and Conrad Gessner from Conrad Gessner’s Historiae Animalium, De Quadrupedibus Oviparis, (Natural history of animals: oviparous quadrupeds), Frankfurt, Wechel for Cambier, 1586.

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