196 INDEX 



Breeding of large animals, 183 



Brontornis, size of leg-bones, 123 



Brontosaurus, 80,* size of bones, 85, 96, 188 



Brooks, W. K, on Lingula, 180 



Buffalo legend, 171 



Buttons as vestigial structures, 161 



Carcharodon auriculatus, 48 



megalodon, 47 



teeth, 47, 48 



estimated size, 47 

 Carson City footprints, 30 

 Casts, how formed, 6, 7 

 Cats and clover, 184 

 Cephalaspis, 14,* 15 

 Ceratosaurus, habits, 92 

 Changes in Nature slow, 179 

 Cheirotherium, 28 

 Chlamydosaurus, 108 

 Cold, effects of, on animals, 181, 182, 183 

 Cold winters, 181 

 Collecting fossils, 10, 97-100 

 Color of large land animals, 112 



of young animals, 112, 113 



Covering of extinct animals sometimes indicated, 109, 111 

 Coyotes, effect of their destruction on fruit, 185 

 Cycnorhampus, 71* 



Ball, W. H., theory as to extinction of mollusks, 227 

 Delabeche's restorations, 114* 

 Diatryma, 125-127, 126,* 130 

 Dimorphodon, 74*, 75* 

 Dinichthys, 18* 



skull and jaws of, 20* 



