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Ml MMIEl) DIXOSAURS 



. J Most wonderful pcrliaps of all the specimeiLs sho\\Ti 



Mummied , ^^ ,, r rr, , , i • i i 



Dinosaur ''*''*' ^"^ '^ nuimniy of 1 mchodoii in which the texture 



of the skin is preserved. The animal is lying on its back 

 and, in s})ite of its crushed condition, its form is easily distinguishable. 

 It i)rol)ably died on ;i ^'mh\ l)iink oi- near a shoal where the hot winds 

 dried uj) the flesh until the skin adhered to the bones like a close-fitting 

 glove, and was subsecjuently buried by a flood. 



Other specimens shown in the hall include the smaller caruivonjus 

 dinosaurs, the honied dinosaurs with, in one instance at least, a skull 

 scn'cn feet in Icn^ith. and »>,iant birds ])()ssess('(l of teeth. There is also the 





RESTORATION OF NAOSAURUS 



One of Nature's jokes. Professor Cope, who was also a joker, suggested that the high fin served 

 IS a sail, by means of which Naosaurus sailed over the lakes near which it lived. 



finback lizard, one of the most ancient of fossil reptiles; Diadedes, a 

 reptile with a solid-boned skull and Eryops, a primitive amphibian. The 

 finest collection of fossil turtles in the world will be found on the south 

 side of the hall. 



[See Handbook Xo. 5, Dinosaurs.] 



In the Tower of the Southeast Pavilion are displayed the fossil fishes 

 which belong to a much earlier period than the mammals 

 Fossil Fishes and reptiles, some of them having lived twenty to fifty 

 millions of years ago. Many of these forerunners of back- 

 boned animals are quite unlike any living fishes and are probably only 

 very indirectly related to them; some were small, curiously encased in 

 shells; others, shown in the three cases in front of the visitor, attained 

 large size and were evidently formidable creatures. One of them in 



