 ... contrivances, which are now dispersed through various classes and orders of existing animals, but are no longer united in the same genus. Thus, in the same individual, the snout of a Porpoise is combined with the teeth of a Crocodile, the head of...  The American Antiquarian and Oriental Journal - Sida 355redigerad av - 1885Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
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...remains abound In the lias formation throughout England. This creature exhibits combinations of form and mechanical contrivances, which are now dispersed...with the vertebrae of a fish, and the sternum of an ornithorhynchus with the paddles of a whale. Some of these reptiles exceeded thirty feet in length.... | |
 | William Buckland - 1837 - 476 sidor
...where they have been discovered by Mr. Mantcll : I have found them in the gault, near Benson, Ozon. which are now dispersed through various classes and...with the Vertebrae of a fish, and the sternum of an Ornithorhynchus with the paddles of a Whale. The general outline of an Ichthyosaurus must have most... | |
 | 1837 - 608 sidor
...1836, p. 193, 277. some of the most remarkable of these reptiles, which possess ' combinations of form and mechanical contrivances which are ' now dispersed...animals, but are no longer united in the same genus.' In its general outline the Ichthyosaurus resembles the modern porpoise or grampus. It combines the... | |
 | Alexander Keith - 1839 - 456 sidor
...animals, but are no longer united in the same genus. Thus, in the same individual, the snout of a tortoise is combined with the teeth of a crocodile, the head of a lizard with the vertebra? of a fish, and the sternum of an ornithorhynchus with the paddles of a whale. Some of the... | |
 | William MacGillivray - 1840 - 266 sidor
...and defence, which their extraordinary structure afforded to them, we shall find combinations of form and mechanical contrivances, which are now dispersed...with the vertebrae of a Fish, and the sternum of an Ornithorhynchus with the paddles of a Whale. The general outline of an Ichthyosaurus must have most... | |
 | William Buckland - 1841 - 488 sidor
...they have been discovered by Mr. Mantell : I have found them in the gault, near Benson, VOL. I. — 12 which are now dispersed through various classes and...teeth of a crocodile, the head of a Lizard with the Vertebra of a fish, and the sternum of an Ornithorhynchus with the paddles of a whale. The general... | |
 | Patrick Duff - 1842 - 132 sidor
...treating of this latter genus of marine reptiles in his " Bridgewater Treatise," says, at page 169—" Thus in the same individual, the snout of a Porpoise...teeth of a Crocodile, the head of a Lizard with the vertebra of a fish, and the sternum of an Ornythorynchus with the paddles of a Whale. The general outline... | |
 | Mrs. Anna Maria (Treadwell) Redfield - 1858 - 712 sidor
...Bridgewater Treatise," says of it, "It presents combinations of form and mechanical con* trivances, which are now dispersed through various classes and...with the vertebrae of a Fish ; and the sternum of the Orrathorhyncus with the paddles of a Whale." The general outline of an Ichthyosaurus "must have... | |
 | 1859 - 782 sidor
...and defence which their extraordinary structure afforded to them, we shall find combinations of form and mechanical contrivances which are now dispersed...with the vertebrae of a fish, and the sternum of an ornithorhyncus (or platypus), with the paddles of a whale. " The general outline of an ichthyosaurus... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1867 - 556 sidor
...and defence which their extraordinary structure afforded to them, we shall find combinations of form and mechanical contrivances which are now dispersed...teeth of a crocodile, the head of a lizard with the vertebra; of a fish, and the sternum of an Ornithorhynchus with the paddles of a whale. The general... | |
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