BROh TOSAURl S 



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once the borne of the rhinoceros. As here indicated .meat herds roamed 

 over the fields in the Tertiary Period and their fossil remains are found 

 imbedded in the sandstones and clays of the badland formations. Oppo- 

 site these are shown the ancestors of the dogs, eats and other carnivore 

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

 to these are the small mammals — the insect ivores, 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 arc skeletons of titanothercs, on the 

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



Restoration of Bronlosaurus . 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 Pavilion 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 known dinosaurs of which the Museum has a large collection. 

 Diplodocus I n the wall case on the left is a portion of the skeleton of 



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



