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Identifier: waterreptilesofp1914will Title: Water reptiles of the past and present Year: 1914 (1910s) Authors: Williston, Samuel Wendell, 1851-1918 Subjects: Aquatic reptiles Publisher: Chicago, Ill., The University of Chicago Press Contributing Library: Boston Public Library Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library
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Text Appearing After Image: s.vv.w 1910 Fio. 68.—Clidasles, an American mosasaur. Life restoration of the modern monitors, which, as we have seen, have acquiredpartial aquatic habits in escaping from their enemies. The 148 WATER REPTILES OF THE PAST AND PRESENT dolichosaurs we can now understand were a side branch from thesesemiaquatic aigialosaurs which, specializing in another direction,quickly came to grief, perhaps in competition with their moreagile and skilful short-necked kin. Taking all these facts into consideration it seems best to unitethe monitors, dolichosaurs, and aigialosaurs into one group ofthe Lacertilia, the Platynota, intermediate in place between thetrue land lizards and the truly aquatic mosasaurs. MOSASAURS At St. Pietersberg, a small mountain in the vicinity of Maes-tricht, Holland, there are immense subterranean stone quarries,which have been worked for more than a thousand years. Thestone quarried from them is a sandy limestone of Upper Cretaceousage containing many well-preserved rem
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