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Anchisaurus * of Marsh, of which he has made a restoration of the 

 skeleton, as shown in Fig. 49. But it was only by putting to- 

 gether the results of several discoveries that he was enabled to give 

 the complete outline of its skeleton as represented in the accom- 

 panying figure, so it may be well to give a brief account of the 

 history of the discoveries that led up to this much-desired result. 

 As far back as the year 1818, a portion of a skeleton was dis- 



FIG. 49. A carnivorous Dinosaur, Anchisaurus colurus, from New Bed Sandstone 

 strata, North America. (After Marsh.) 



covered in the Connecticut Valley, near Windsor. Another was 

 found near Springfield, and described by Hitchcock, in 1865, 

 under the name Megadactylus. Later on, in the year 1884, Pro- 

 fessor Marsh announced another discovery, near Manchester 

 Connecticut, in almost the same geological level, or " horizon,"- 

 1 Greek anchi, near; sauros, lizard. 



