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Dinosaurs

CHAPTER VII
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"During the existence of the Trachodonts the climate of the northern part of North America was much warmer than it is at present, the plant remains indicating a climate for Wyoming and Montana similar to what now prevails in Southern California.

Palm leaves resembling the palmetto of Florida are frequently found in the same rocks with these skeletons.

Here occur also such, at present, widely separated trees as the gingko now native of China, and the Sequoia now native of the Pacific Coast.

Fruits and leaves of the fig tree are also common, but most abundant among the plant remains are the Equisetae or horsetail rushes, some species of which possibly supplied the Trachodons with food.
[Illustration: Fig.

29 .-- Restoration of the Duck-billed Dinosaur Trachodon.


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