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| Charles H. Sternberg |
Frontispiece |
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| Rocks of Laramie Beds on South Schneider Creek, Converse Co., Wyoming |
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| Weathered Rocks and Laramie Beds near South Schneider Creek |
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| Mushroom-like Concretion Known as Pulpit Rock |
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| Fossil Leaves of Sassafras dissectum. (After Lesquereux.) |
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| Fossil Leaves. a, Unopened Leaf Nodule. b, Nodule opened to show fossil leaf. c, d, e, f, Various forms of fossil leaves |
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| Facsimile of letter from Dr. Lesquereux to the author |
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| Skull and Front Limb of Clidastes tortor |
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| Skeleton of Clidastes tortor |
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| Skeleton of Ram-nosed Tylosaur, Tylosaurus dyspelor |
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| Ram-nosed Tylosaur, Tylosaurus dyspelor. Restoration by Osborn and Knight |
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| Skull of the Flat-wristed Mosasaur, Platecarpus coryphæus |
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| Restoration of Kansas Cretaceous Animals. (From drawing by S. Prentice, after Williston.) a, Unitacrinus socialis; b, Clidastes velox; c, Ornithostoma ingens |
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| Giant Cretaceous Fish, Portheus molossus (above), compared with a six-foot modern Tarpon (below) |
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| Lower jaw of Trachodon marginatus, SHOWING SUCCESSIVE LAYERS OF TEETH. Top and side views of a tooth of Myledaphus bipartitus. (After Osborn and Lambe.) |
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| Skull of a Duck-billed Dinosaur, Diclonius, FOUR FEET IN LENGTH |
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| Professor E. D. Cope |
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| Brontosaurus or Thunder Lizard. Restoration by Osborn and Knight |
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| Fossil shells, Haploscapha grandis. (After Cope.) |
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| Charles Sternberg and son taking up a large slab of fossils from a chalk bed in Gove Co., Kansas |
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| Camp and Wagon of the fossil hunters on Grasswood Creek, Converse Co., Wyoming |
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| Skeleton of the Plesiosaur, Dolichorhynchus osborni. (After Williston.) |
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| Fossil limb bones of the Giant Sea Tortoise, Protostega gigas |
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| Fossil shell of Giant Land Turtle, Testudo orthopygia |
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| The Snake-necked Elasmosaurus, Elasmosaurus platyurus. Restoration by Osborn and Knight |
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| Three-toed Horse, Hypohippus. (After Gidley.) |
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| Fossil Rhinoceros, Teleoceras fossiger. (After Osborn.) |
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| Skull and tusks of Imperial Mammoth, Elephas imperator |
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| Fossil-bearing Cliffs. (After Merriam.) Upper John Day exposure |
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| Fossil-bearing Cliffs. (After Merriam.) Middle John Day exposure |
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| Fossil-bearing Cliffs. (After Merriam.) Mascall Formation |
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| Fossil-bearing Cliffs. (After Merriam.) Clarno Formation |
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| Skull of Great Saber-toothed Tiger, Pogonodon platycopis. (After Cope.) |
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| Skeleton of Fin-backed Lizard, Naosaurus claviger |
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| Fin-backed Lizard, Naosaurus claviger. Restoration by Osborn and Knight |
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| Facsimile of letter from Prof. E. D. Cope to the author |
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| Fossil skull of Giant Salamander, Diplocaulus magnicornis. (After Broili.) |
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| Professor Henry Fairfield Osborn |
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| Facsimile of letter from Dr. Karl von Zittel to the author |
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| Dr. Karl von Zittel |
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| Shell of Toxochelys bauri? |
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| Niobrara Group, Cretaceous chalk with cap rock of Loup Fork Tertiary, Known as Castle Rock, Gove Co., Kansas |
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| Chalk of Kansas, known as the Coffee Mill. Hell Creek |
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| Bones of Platecarpus coryphæus |
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| Skeleton of Hesperornis regalis, the Giant-toothed Bird of the Kansas Cretaceous |
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| Slab of Fossil Crinoids, Uintacrinus socialis, CONTAINING 160 CALYCES, COVERING FOUR BY SEVEN FEET |
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| Skull and Horns of Giant Bison from Hoxie, Kansas. Spread of horn cores six feet, one inch; length along curve, eight feet |
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| Jaw of Columbian Mammoth, Elephas columbi |
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| Three-horned Dinosaur, Triceratops sp. Restoration by Osborn and Knight |
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| Duck-billed Dinosaur, Trachodon mirabilis. Restoration by Osborn and Knight |
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