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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: Fig. 94.—Dorsal vertebrae of phyto-saur: az, anterior zygapophysis; pz, pos-terior zygapophysis; d, c, articulationsof rib. Fig. 95.—Scapula and coracoid ofRiitiodon carolinensis, an American phy-tosaur. (After McGregor.) regions: Belodon, Angistorhinus, Paleorhinus, and Episcopo-saurus. From the Carolinas and Massachusetts a single genus,though described under numerous names, has been made known,originally called by Emmons Rutiodon (Rhytidodon). And fromEurope and India at least as many more different genera are known.All these genera are, however, so closely allied that they are placedin the single family Belodontidae. PARASUCHIA 191 In Belodon (Fig. 96), the earliest known and most typicalgenus, perhaps, the moderately elongated face has a high crestreaching nearly to its front end, and this type is known both fromEurope and from New Mexico.Others have the face long andslender, even longer and moreslender than in the ancient teleo-crocodiles or the modern saur

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