PARIASAURUS SKELETONS 



all the bones complete, especially those of the 

 feet. Few of the individuals were complete 

 even when originally embedded in the mud 

 ages ago. When an animal's body is carried 

 away by a river and floats in a decomposing 

 state it tends to fall to pieces. 



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Fig. 157. — A series of skeletons of Pariasaurus removed bit by 

 bit from Archangel nodules and mounted as detached 

 specimens by Professor Amalitzky. 



The cliff formed by the present river Dwina 

 consists of rocks of immense, indeed of almost 

 inconceivable, age, and existed as solid rock ages 

 and ages before the surface of the earth had its 

 present form. These deep-lying rocks have 

 been brought near to the surface by bending of 



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