 | F.V Hayden - 1872 - 560 страници
...species 22 feet -represent the neck in a total length of 50 feet. This is the Elasmosaurus platyurus, Cope, a carnivorous sea-reptile, no doubt adapted...relatively very stout, more so, indeed, than in the Elasmosaurus, as though to balance the anterior regions while occupied in various actions; e. #., while... | |
 | Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories (U.S.) - 1872 - 596 страници
...species 22 feet represent the neck in a total length of 50 feet. This is the Elasmosaurus platyurus, Cope, a carnivorous sea-reptile, no doubt adapted...tail was relatively very stout, more so, indeed, than iu the Elasmosaurus, as though to balance the anterior regions while occupied in various actions ;... | |
 | Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories (U.S.) - 1872 - 570 страници
...species 22 feet represent the neck in a total length of 50 feet. This is the Elasmosaurus platyurus, Cope, a carnivorous sea-reptile, no doubt adapted...degree of attenuation, while the tail was relatively verystout, more so, indeed, than in the Elmmosaurus, as though to balance the anterior regions while... | |
 | William Edward Webb - 1873 - 516 страници
...raising the head to the distant air for a breath, then withdrawing it and exploring the depths forty feet below, without altering the position of its body....relatively very stout, more so, indeed, than in the Elasmosaurus, as though to balance the anterior regions while occupied in various actions, eg, while... | |
 | William Edward Webb - 1874 - 510 страници
...raising the head to the distant air for a breath, then withdrawing it and exploring the depths forty feet below, without altering the position of its body....relatively very stout, more so, indeed, than in the Elasmdsaurus, as though to balance the anterior regions while occupied in various actions, eg, while... | |
 | 1882 - 668 страници
...depths forty feet below without altering the position of its body. From the localities in which these bones have been found in Kansas, it must have wandered...teeth and scales found in the position of its stomach. This creature has a most distinctive serpentine appearance, and a fine skeleton of it, nearly complete,... | |
 | Archibald Geikie - 1882 - 996 страници
...depths 40 feet below without altering the position of its body. It must have wandered far from laud, and that many kinds of fishes formed its food is shown...teeth and scales found in the position of its stomach " (Cope). The real rulers of the American Cretaceous waters were the pythonomorphic saurians or sea-serpents,... | |
 | Archibald Geikie - 1893 - 1184 страници
...withdrawing it and exploring the depths 40 feet below without altering the position of its body, [t must have wandered far from land, and that many kinds...teeth and scales found in the position of its stomach " (Cope). The real rulers of the American Cretaceous waters were the pythonomorphic saurians or sea-serpents,... | |
 | Frederick Hovenden - 1899 - 340 страници
...then withdrawing it and exploring the depths 40 feet below without altering the position of its body. It must have wandered far from land, and that many...teeth and scales found in the position of its stomach ' (Cope)."1 Sea-serpents found in this system measure more than seventy-five feet in length ; their... | |
 | Bertie Webster Smith - 1926 - 494 страници
...then withdrawing it, and exploring the depths 40 feet below without altering the position of its body. It must have wandered far from land ; and that many...and scales found in the position of its stomach." GIGANTIC TURTLES. This was, in very truth, the age of the gigantic. Even the turtles outgrew their... | |
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Cope, a carnivorous sea-reptile, no doubt adapted for deeper waters than many of the others. Like the snake-bird of Florida, it probably often swam many feet below the surface, raising the head to the distant air for a breath, then withdrawing it and... 