52 CONCLUSIONS. 
The largest actually measured living Reptile has a length of 30 
feet (Crocodilus), but some fossilized reptiles show a length of 38 
feet (Hadrosaurus, Ichthyosaurus), 45 feet (Hlasmosaurus), 58 feet | 
(Rhamphosuchus), 70 feet (Brontosaurus), nay even of 100 (Liodon) | 
and of 115 feet (At/antosaurus), and probably many kinds of Rep- 
Fig. 81.— Otaria jubata (ForstER) Desm.— From the “List of the Vertebrated Animals : 
now or lately living in the Gardens of the Zoological Society of London, 1877.” | 
tiles are still longer, the skeletons of which have been dug up | 
only partially ! : 
Whale-bone-whales of 88 feet, spermwhales of 90 fest, and fin- ; 
whales of 120 feet are occasionally mentioned to have peea meas- 
ured in the foregoing century, but at present such dimensions are 
not more recorded, because these animals have been so incessantly 
persecuted for ages! 
Well, let us stop here, and say that there are many wonders 
still hidden in the sea, and that there will be always a chance 
that of every species of animals individuals will be discovered, still 
larger than the largest specimen ever measured. If of all Pin- 
nipeds the sea-elephants were hitherto the largest known, . this is 
no more the case: they are surpassed by sea-serpents. If of all 
known living and fossil animals the Atlantosaurus and the Balae- 
noptera were hitherto the largest known, this is no more the case: 
they are surpassed by the MMegophias. 
Of all Pinnipeds the family of the Auriculata (Kared Seals) has 
