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Dinosaurs

CHAPTER IV
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A number of very curious plates were found with one specimen in a quarry.

B.
Brown, 1913.] [Footnote 5: Quite recently a series of more or less complete skeletons have been secured from the upper Triassic (Keuper) near Halberstadt in Germany.

They are not true Megalosaurians, but primitive types (Pachypodosauria) ancestral to both these and the Sauropoda.

Probably many of the Connecticut footprints were made by animals of this primitive group.

_Anchisaurus_ certainly belongs to it.] [Footnote 6: It is evidently "the dinosaur" of Sir Conan Doyle's "Lost World" but the vivid description which the great English novelist gives of its appearance and habits, based probably upon the Hawkins restoration, is not at all in accord with inferences from what is now known of these animals.


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