TRACHODOX 



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Southeast Pavilion 



DINOSAUR HALL 

 FOSSIL REPTILES, AMPHIBIANS AND FISHES 



The visitor now enters the Southeast Pavilion containing the dinosaurs 

 and other fossil reptiles and also fishes. This hall is badly crowded, 



DUCK-BILLED DINOSAURS, TRACHODON 



owing to the delay in constructing a new wing. 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, during the Age of Reptiles, when 

 dinosaurs and great marine reptiles held the place of the various land 

 and sea mammals which had not yet come into existence. The dinosaurs, 

 of which the Museum has a large collection, include a great variety of 

 extinct reptiles very different from those of the present clay. They were 



