SPECIMENS OF PARIASAURUS 



angel, for whilst the thickness of a twentieth 

 of an inch suffices to indicate the accumulations 

 of strata since the mammoth lived in England, 

 the Trias is a long way down the series, far 

 below the Eocene, where the ancestral elephants 

 of Egypt are found, far below the Chalk, and 



Fig. 159. — Photograph by Professor Amahtzky on a larger 

 scale of a skull of a Pariasaurus from an Archangel nodule. 



older than the long Jurassic series of rocks in 

 which the remains of the great Dinosaurs we 

 have recently looked at, occur. 



In Fig. 158 one of Professor Amalitzky's 

 specimens of Pariasaurus is shown. There is 

 no artificial completing of this skeleton : all 

 that is seen is actual bone as cleaned out of a 



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