THE JURASSIC AGE. 



Fig. 154.* M. Elie de Beaumont's map of Western Em-ope in the Jurassic Age. 



The Scandinavian peninsula remained unchanged since the 

 Carboniferous period. 



337. The marine animals of the Jurassic age presented cha- 

 racters strikingly different from those of the preceding epochs. 

 The seas were now inhabited by monstrous animals endowed with 

 vast powers of aquatic locomotion called Ichthyosauri, fig. 7, and 



* The dark shading represents land. 



