. Catalogue of casts of fossils, from the principal museums of Europe and America, with short descriptions and illustrations. Fossils. 74 VEBTEBKATA. No. 279. Colossochelys atlas, Falc. and Caut, Carapace and Plastron. This gigantic Tortoise—the King of Chelonians —was a contemporary of the Simtlierium. The original cast, belonging to the British Museum, is a restoration from fragments discovered in the Miocene strata of the Sewalik Hills, India, and now in the Museum of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. Size, 8 ft. 2 in. x 5 ft. 10 in. Price (in three pieces, unpainted), $ No. 280. Testud
. Catalogue of casts of fossils, from the principal museums of Europe and America, with short descriptions and illustrations. Fossils. 74 VEBTEBKATA. No. 279. Colossochelys atlas, Falc. and Caut, Carapace and Plastron. This gigantic Tortoise—the King of Chelonians —was a contemporary of the Simtlierium. The original cast, belonging to the British Museum, is a restoration from fragments discovered in the Miocene strata of the Sewalik Hills, India, and now in the Museum of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. Size, 8 ft. 2 in. x 5 ft. 10 in. Price (in three pieces, unpainted), $ No. 280. Testudo Nebrascensis, Leidy. Carapace and Plastron. This small, land-Tortoise had the general form of the ffinys, and was much depressed. It was found in the Mauvaises Terres of Nebraska (Lower Miocene), and is the Museum of the Academy of Natural Sci- ences, Philadelphia. Size, 6x4. Price, $ No. 281. Testudo hemispherica, Leidy. Carapace and Plastron* The Carapace is more convex than that of the preceding,and the vertebral plates from the second to the eighth inclu- sive, are hexahedral. This specimen, found at the same locality as the T. Nebrascensis, is in the Ward Museum of the University of Rochester. Size, 9x7. Price, $ No. 282. Testudo . Carapace and Plastron. This Tortoise was found in the Sewalik Hills, India (Miocene), and is in the British Museum. Size, 23x18. Price, $ No. 283. Emys Hamiltonoides, Falc. and 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 Ward, Henry A. (Henry Augustus), 1834-1906. Rochester, N. Y. , Benton & Andrews, printers
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