. A general guide to the British Museum (Natural History) ... With plans and a view of the building. British Museum (Natural History). 80 FOSSIL REPTILE GALLEEY. room; the original being in the Brussels Natural History Museum, Nearly allied to the gigantic Iguanodon is the diminutive Hypsilophodon foxi, of which remains are also found in the Wealden formation of the Isle of Wight. Both habitually walked in the up- right posture on their three- toed hind-limbs. In the centre of this gallery is placed a large portion of the skeleton of a gigantic Dinosaur (Oetiosaurus leedsi) from the Upper Jura
. A general guide to the British Museum (Natural History) ... With plans and a view of the building. British Museum (Natural History). 80 FOSSIL REPTILE GALLEEY. room; the original being in the Brussels Natural History Museum, Nearly allied to the gigantic Iguanodon is the diminutive Hypsilophodon foxi, of which remains are also found in the Wealden formation of the Isle of Wight. Both habitually walked in the up- right posture on their three- toed hind-limbs. In the centre of this gallery is placed a large portion of the skeleton of a gigantic Dinosaur (Oetiosaurus leedsi) from the Upper Jurassic Oxford Clay near Peter- borough. This Dinosaur is nearly allied to the North American Diplodocus, of which, as mentioned above, the model of a complete skeleton is ex- hibited in the recent Eeptile Gallery (see page 52). Both Oetiosaurus and Diplodocus re- sembled Brontosaurus (fig. 51) in the extremely small size of their skulls. At the eastern end of the gallery are the Pterosauria or Ornithosauria, commonly called Pterodactyles or Flying Eeptiles, of which the most gigantic representatives were the species of Pteranodon from the Upper Cretaceous of Kansas (fig. 52). At the west end is the nearly complete skeleton of Pariasaurus (fig. 53) from the Karoo formation (Trias) of South Africa, one of the most remark- able of fossil Eeptiles, which also occurs in Eussia. It. K a o m N Q'g «l gl %^ P O . h -4 ^ K !» ? 6. g g o o ^1 o ™ I hH Ed. 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 British Museum (Natural History). London, Printed by order of the Trustees [by W. Clowes and Sons, Limited]
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