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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: SAUROPTERYGIA 97 plesiosaurs, and even the astute Cuvier was not very clear aboutthem. Cuvier was the first to call attention to them, expressingthe opinion that some of the fossils were of previously unknownanimals allied to the crocodiles, lizards, and plesiosaurs. It wasvon Meyer, however, who first introduced a nothosaur to thescientific world under the name Conchiosaurus. A year laterCount George of Miinster described other forms under the nameNothosaurus, meaning false lizard. Count von Miinster was amost zealous collector of the fossils of the Triassic deposits ofBavaria, amassing, after thirty years of active and enthusiasticlabor, a very large amount of material, which, at his death, waspurchased by the King of Bavaria and placed in the hands of vonMeyer for study. Von Meyer was to Germany what Owen was to

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