Expeditions organized or participated in by the Smithsonian . • Gilmore. covered in the Rocky Mountain region in 1855. and portions of ahundred or more skeletons have been collected, this is the first indi-vidual to be found having a complete articulated tail and hind thus contributes greatly to our knowledge of the skeletal anatomyof this interesting group of extinct reptiles. .Another noteworthy find was a partial skeleton of one of theTrachodont or duck-l)illed dinosaurs. This animal was only recently ^ Mr. Gilmores description of this reptile is to 1)e found


Expeditions organized or participated in by the Smithsonian . • Gilmore. covered in the Rocky Mountain region in 1855. and portions of ahundred or more skeletons have been collected, this is the first indi-vidual to be found having a complete articulated tail and hind thus contributes greatly to our knowledge of the skeletal anatomyof this interesting group of extinct reptiles. .Another noteworthy find was a partial skeleton of one of theTrachodont or duck-l)illed dinosaurs. This animal was only recently ^ Mr. Gilmores description of this reptile is to 1)e found in theSmithsonian Misc. Vol. 63, Xo. 3. 1914. 20 S^riTHSOXIAX ^IISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. 63. .vH -.


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