 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1836 - 612 Seiten
...as Cuvier observes, is the most heteroclite, and its character altogether the most monstrous, of any that have yet been found amid the ruins of a former world. A lizard's head with crocodile teeth set on a serpent-like or rather swan-like neck of great length... | |
 | 1836 - 1184 Seiten
...as Cuvier observes, is the most heteroclite, and its character altogether the most monstrous, of any that have yet been found amid the ruins of a former world. A lizard's head with crocodile teeth set on a serpent-like or rather swan-like neck of great length... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1836 - 606 Seiten
...as Cuvier observes, is the most heteroclite, and its character altogether the most monstrous, of any that have yet been found amid the ruins of a former world. A lizard's head with crocodile teeth set on a serpent-like or rather swan-like neck of great length... | |
 | 1838 - 80 Seiten
...PLESIOSAURUS. The characters of this animal have been described by Cuvier, as altogether the most numerous that have yet been found amid the ruins of a former world. It had the head of a lizard, the teeth of a crocodile, a trunk and tail of the proportions of an ordinary... | |
 | 1855 - 804 Seiten
...Cuvier asserts the structure of the Plesiosaurus to have been the most hétéroclite, and its character altogether the most monstrous, that have yet been found amid the ruins of a former world.* To the head of a Lizard, it united the teeth of a crocodile ; a neck of enormous length, resembling... | |
 | William Garland Barrett - 1855 - 340 Seiten
...— " The Plesiosaur is the most heteroclite, and in character the most monstrous, of all the animals that have yet been found amid the ruins of a former world. To the head of a lizard it united the teeth of a crocodile, a neck of enormous length resembling the... | |
 | Robert Damon - 1884 - 282 Seiten
...thirty-three of which belong to the neck. Compared with the Ichthyosaurus the head is shorter, the vertebrse are smaller in diameter, but considerably thicker....planispondylus occurs in the Oxford Clay of Greenhill and Radipole Backwater, and Plesiosaurus megapleuron (Owen) in the lower beds of the Portland Stone in... | |
 | Robert Damon - 1884 - 284 Seiten
...thirty-three of which belong to the neck. Compared with the Ichthyosaurus the head is shorter, the vertebrae are smaller in diameter, but considerably thicker....Plesiosaurus planispondylus occurs in the Oxford Clay of Qreenhill and End i polo Backwater, and Plesiosaurus megapleuron (Owen) in the lower beds of the Portland... | |
 | 1837 - 658 Seiten
...has pronounced to be the most heteroclite, and its character altogether the most monstrous, of all that have yet been found amid the ruins of a former world. It possessed a lizard's head, with crocodile teeth, a neck of enormous length, resembling the body... | |
 | 1836 - 610 Seiten
...as Cuvier observes, is the most heteroclite, and its character altogether the most monstrous, of any that have yet been found amid the ruins of a former world. A lizard's head with crocodile teeth set on a serpent-like or rather swan-like neck of great length... | |
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The plesiosauri next claim our attention ; and, if the ichthyosaurus be considered extraordinary, we know not what term to apply to the plesiosaurus; an animal, whose structure, as Cuvier observes, is the most heteroclite, and its character altogether... 