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WATER REPTILES OF THE PAST AND PRESENT 



earliest exploration of the great Cretaceous fossil deposits of western 

 Kansas, discovered and collected a remarkable specimen of one 



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Fig. 121. — Toxochelys latiremis; front leg: Ajim, humerus; roi/, radius; «/, ulna; 

 ml, intermedium; uln, ulnare; p, pisiform; cen, centrale. (From Wieland.) 



Fig. 12 2. — Desmalochelys lowii: skull from above and below 



of the most extraordinary turtles that is known even yet. By an 

 error somewhat natural for those times, when the theory of evolu- 

 tion was just beginning to attain acceptance by naturalists, he 



