DEPARTMENT OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY. 



On the left side of the hall are arranged the Amblypods, 

 ancient hoofed animals long ago extinct, unlike any living animal, 

 although suggesting elephants, rhinoceroses, hippopotami and 

 bears, in different parts of the body. Next there are the Condy- 

 larths, the most ancient of hoofed mammals, then the Creodonta 

 and Carnivora (flesh-eatmg mammals), the Insectivora (insect- 

 eaters), Rodents (gnawers), and other small and primitive 

 mammals. Then come the Elephants and the various kinds of 

 cloven-hoofed animals, allied to modern pigs, deer, sheep and 

 cattle. 



The Dinosaurs or Giant Reptiles are temporarily placed 

 at the end of the hall and in the two high cases to the left of the 

 centre aisle. Small models of restorations of three kinds of 

 Dinosaur will be found in an A-case near the end of the hall left 

 of the centre aisle. 



rhe Mosasaurs or Great Marine Lizards are represented 



by the skeleton on the wall of the corridor by the staircase. This 

 corridor will ultimately be filled with great marine reptiles. 



The Water-color Restorations by Charles Knight, mainly 

 based on complete skeletons exhibited in this hall, show the 

 probable appearance of the different extinct animals, according to 

 our best judgment, as indicated by the characters of the skeleton, 

 appearance of their nearest surviving relatives, and the habits of 

 life for which the animals seem to have been fitted. 



I'he Window Transparencies are enlarged from photo- 

 graphs of the regions where the fossils occur, and generally show 

 the localities where unusually fine specimens in this hall were 

 found. 



