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of fish, and even occasionally .their own species, for small 

 Ichthyosauri have been met with in the bellies of the large 

 ones. 



279. Skeleton of the Common Ichtliyosauriis~/c/i</i^/osa»)'«,s communis. Head of 



Ichthyosaurus. 



With these terrible dominators of the Jm-assic seas lived 

 the Plesiosauri, reptiles eq\ially strange, and which Cuvier 



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