. The testimony of the rocks; . VESPERTILIO PARISIENSIS. A Bat of the Eocene. occur in the Eocene of the Paris Basin, associated withthe bones of dolphins, lamantines, and morses. Now, inthe times of the Oolite it was the reptihan class that pos- Fig. 62. ICHTHYOSAURUS COMMUNIS. (Lias.) sessed itself of all the elements. Its gigantic enaliosaurs,huge reptihan whales mounted on paddles, were the tyrants 108 THE PAL^ONTOLOGICAL of the ocean, and must have reigned supreme over thealready reduced class of fishes; its pterodactyles, — drag- Fig. 63,

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