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once the lioinc ol" the I'liiiioccio^. A> licrc indicated ^rcat herds 

 roamed oxer the fields i!i the 'I'erliary l^eriod and their fossil 

 remains ai-e found imix'dded in tiie sandstones and ela\s of the hadland 

 foiMnat ions. ()|)j)osite these are sliown the ancestors of tlie do^s. cats 

 and other eai-ni\()i"es and the ('reodonts oi- Primitive ( "arnivcjres of the 

 eail\' 'I'eiiiary. Next to these aic the small mannnals the insectivores, 

 rodents and marsupials; and the fossil lemurs and monkeys, fraf^nientai'y 

 hut intei-estin<»; Ix'cause of their hearing on the ancestry of man. 



On the south side on the ri^ht are skeletons of titanotheres. on the 

 left of uintat lieres. hu<i;e extinct, horned animals |)eculiar to North 

 America. 



Restoration of Brontomiirus. One of the largest of the amphibious dinosaurs, cold-blooded, 

 slow-moving, unintelligent creatures that grew to large size (65 ft. in length) in the rich vegetation of 

 the Reptilian era. 



SOUTHEAST PAVILION 



Fossil Keptiles and Fishes 

 The visitor now enters the Southeast PariUon containin«i; the dinosaurs 

 and oth(T fossil reptiles and also fishes. These animals belong to a more 

 ancient ])(M-i()d than the s])(H'imens just examintMl. They lived from 



:i()()(),()()() to 1(),000,()()0 years ago. They include the 

 The Dinosaur well-known dinosaurs of which the ]\Iuseum has a large 

 Diplodocus collection. In the wall case on the left is a portion of the 



skeleton of the dinosaur Diplodocus; this was the first of 

 these speeiuKMis to be unearthed by the Museum, whih^ on the right is a 

 nearly comph^te skt^leton of a i-elat(Ml spcM'ies mountcMl as it lay wIkmi ten 



