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oiur tlu' honn' of llic rliiiioccros. As hvvv iii(lic;il('<l ^n-it licnls roiiiin-*! 

 ()\or tlie fields in the Tcrtijiry I't'riod jiiid their fossil i-ciiiains iirc found 

 imbedded in tlie siiiidstoiies and elays of the l)jidhind foniiatioiis. Oppo- 

 site these tire shown the iiiieestors of the dogs, cuts and other curnivores 

 and the Creodonts or Primitive Carnivores of the early Tertiary. Next 

 to these are the small mammals — the insectivores, rodents and marsupials; 

 and the fossil lemurs and monkeys, fragmentary but interesting because 

 of their bearing on the ancestry of man. 



On the south side on the right are skeletons of titanotheres, on the 

 left of uintatheres, huge extinct, horned animals peculiar to North America . 



Restoration of Brontosaurus. 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 Reptiles and Fishes 



The visitor now enters the Southeast P«r///o/r containing the dinosaurs 

 and other fossil reptiles and also fishes. These animals belong to a more 

 ancient period than the specimens just examined. They lived from 

 3,000,000 to 10,000,000 years ago. They include the well- 

 The Dinosaur knowTi dinosaurs of which the Museum has a large collection. 

 Diplodocus In the wall case on the left is a portion of the skeleton of 

 the dinosaur Diplodocus; this was the first of these speci- 



