Water Reptiles of the Past and Present

About this eBook

Author

Williston, Samuel Wendell, 1851-1918

Original Publication

United States: The University of Chicago Press,1914.

Credits

Peter Becker and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

QL: Science: Zoology

Subject

Aquatic reptiles, Fossil

Category

Text

eBook-No.

67314

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/67314

Release Date

February 3, 2022

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.WATER REPTILES OF THE PAST AND PRESENT
2. 2.PREFACE
3. 3.CONTENTS
4. 4.CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION
5. 5.CHAPTER II CLASSIFICATION OF REPTILES
6. 6.CHAPTER III THE SKELETON OF REPTILES — SKULL AND TEETH — VERTEBRAE AND RIBS — PECTORAL OR SHOULDER GIRDLE — ANTERIOR EXTREMITY — PELVIC OR HIP GIRDLE — POSTERIOR EXTREMITY
7. 7.CHAPTER IV THE AGE OF REPTILES — EXTINCT REPTILES OF NORTH AMERICA
8. 8.CHAPTER V ADAPTATION OF LAND REPTILES TO LIFE IN THE WATER
9. 9.CHAPTER VI SAUROPTERYGIA — PLESIOSAURIA — NOTHOSAURIA
10. 10.CHAPTER VII ANOMODONTIA
11. 11.CHAPTER VIII ICHTHYOSAURIA
12. 12.CHAPTER IX PROGANOSAURIA
13. 13.CHAPTER X PROTOROSAURIA — PROTOROSAURUS — PLEUROSAURUS
14. 14.CHAPTER XI SQUAMATA — LIZARDS — MOSASAURS — SNAKES
15. 15.CHAPTER XII THALATTOSAURIA
16. 16.CHAPTER XIII — RHYNCHOCEPHALIA — CHORISTODERA
17. 17.CHAPTER XIV — PARASUCHIA — PHYTOSAURIA
18. 18.CHAPTER XV CROCODILIA — MODERN CROCODILES, EUSUCHIA — ANCIENT CROCODILES, MESOSUCHIA — MARINE CROCODILES, THALATTOSUCHIA
19. 19.CHAPTER XVI — CHELONIA — SIDE-NECKED TURTLES. PLEURODIRA — CRYPTODIRA — SNAPPING TURTLES — FRESH-WATER OR MARSH TORTOISES — LAND TORTOISES — SEA-TURTLES. CHELONIDAE — ANCIENT SEA-TURTLES. PROTOSTEGIDAE — LEATHER-BACK MARINE TURTLES — RIVER TURTLES. TRIONYCHOIDEA
20. 20.INDEX

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