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[edit]DescriptionImage from page 99 of "Water reptiles of the past and present" (1914) (14773006625).jpg |
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. 41.—Skull of Trinacromerum from the side: ang, angular; d, dentary; pm,premaxilla; po, postorbital; j, jugal; sur, surangular. and the mosasaurs, whereas the crocodiles, thalattosaurs, phyto-saurs, etc., have two. The brain cavity of all plesiosaurs is small,though the cavities of the internal ears, the semicircular canals atleast, are large. The semicircular canals in vertebrates have littleor nothing to do with the function of hearing; they serve rather forequilibration, for the co-ordination of muscular movement; possi-bly we may infer from their large size in the plesiosaurs that theywere not at all clumsy in their movements. There is a large open-ing for the pineal body, the so-called eye in the roof of the braincavity, though its possession does not necessarily imply the pos-session of a functional organ. The Plesiosauria included some of the largest aquatic reptilesthat have ever existed, equaled, perhaps, though not exceeded,by some of the extinct crocodiles. The larges
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