General guide to the exhibition halls of the American Museum of Natural History . 0* Hi QZ 3 3! h h< UJ atO I. A CARNIVOROlS DINOSAUR AND ITS PREY (Allosaurus and Brontosaurus). Though not as large as Brontosaurus, the Allosaurus was a formidable carnivorous reptile which, it is believed, was able to devour its larger but more sluggish dinosaur contemporary Hall of Jurassic Reptiles(Index Plan, p. 19, Floor IV, Hall 13) The skeleton which dominates the cen-ter of the hall is that of the great Bronto-saurus or Thunder Reptile, big-bodied,small-headed, with massive limbs, whosejoints, capped
General guide to the exhibition halls of the American Museum of Natural History . 0* Hi QZ 3 3! h h< UJ atO I. A CARNIVOROlS DINOSAUR AND ITS PREY (Allosaurus and Brontosaurus). Though not as large as Brontosaurus, the Allosaurus was a formidable carnivorous reptile which, it is believed, was able to devour its larger but more sluggish dinosaur contemporary Hall of Jurassic Reptiles(Index Plan, p. 19, Floor IV, Hall 13) The skeleton which dominates the cen-ter of the hall is that of the great Bronto-saurus or Thunder Reptile, big-bodied,small-headed, with massive limbs, whosejoints, capped in life with cartilage, indi-cate that he lived in swamps and in theedge of streams where the great weightof his body, 25 to 30 tons, would be sup-ported in the water. Near Brontosaurus is Allosaurus, ap-parently turned into a fossil whilemunching on the tail of a defunct rela-tive of that big beast. Looking closely,one sees that the tops of the vertebraeare scored with grooves where some mil-lions of years ago they were marked bythe claws of the flesh-eating dinosaurwhich destroyed it. In a case to the left
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