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STORY OF THE REPTILES 



These Professor Cope called " Tlieromorphs " or 

 beast-forms, because their teeth were so very much 



Fig. 48. — Dicynodon lacerticeps. 



like those of some modern mammals (or beasts). The 

 grinding teeth liere first began also to show cusps or 



more points than one. L(e- 



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Fig. 49. — Lycosaurus. 



laj)^^ a terribly clawed carnivorous fossil reptile, had 

 teeth that were serrate (saw-toothed). 



In the crocodiHans, the teeth grow much as in 

 some of the old monsters. They come up out of the 



