Our planet, its past and future; or, Lectures on geology . ClicirothciiuDl Uurthi. Jena in Germany, is now in the Ward .Museum, Roches. ler, Tlie tracks of the -Iiind-fect are about eight inches louLT and five wide; and the fore-feet, Umit . . • I inches long and three wide. Ri-iiiains of this aimii d have since been discovered; and it is now known as IGG LECTURES ON the lahyrintliodon, from the labyrinthine appearance ofj,-ig, 21. the interior of the teeth. Fig. 21 represents the head of onefound near Stuttgart, Wurtem-berg. The body has not yet beendiscovered, but, from the si
Our planet, its past and future; or, Lectures on geology . ClicirothciiuDl Uurthi. Jena in Germany, is now in the Ward .Museum, Roches. ler, Tlie tracks of the -Iiind-fect are about eight inches louLT and five wide; and the fore-feet, Umit . . • I inches long and three wide. Ri-iiiains of this aimii d have since been discovered; and it is now known as IGG LECTURES ON the lahyrintliodon, from the labyrinthine appearance ofj,-ig, 21. the interior of the teeth. Fig. 21 represents the head of onefound near Stuttgart, Wurtem-berg. The body has not yet beendiscovered, but, from the size ofthe head, is estimated at nine fe(jtin length. It was covered withscales. Tliis i-eptilefirst made itsappearance in the carboniferousformation, but was then remarkable reptile of Labyrinthodon J«geri. l\{^^ timC, of wllicll but tllC llCad has been discovered, is the jlcicodus, or plate-tooth, as itsname signifies. Its crushing teeth were like paving-stones. It was discovered in the muschelkalk, 3tLaiiieck, in Bavaria, associated with multitudes of fosBilshells, which have given their name to the strata; an 1there is little doubt that the teeth were used, being welladapted for that puipose, to crush the shells of tbsmtiUusks on which the reptile fed. Of the last tooth, saysOwen, It is, in proportion to the entire skull, the large stgrinding tooth in die
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