 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1836 - 606 lapas
...great length (the vertebrae being about thirty-three), a trunk and tail with the proportions of those of an ordinary quadruped, the ribs of a cameleon, and the paddles of a whale : — ' Such are the strange combinations of form and structure in the plesiosaurus ; a genus, the... | |
 | 1836 - 1184 lapas
...great length (the vertebra being about thirty-three), a trunk and tail with the proportions of those of an ordinary quadruped, the ribs of a cameleon, and the paddles of a whale :— ' The plesiosauri appear to have lived in shallow seas and estuaries, and to have breathed air... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1836 - 610 lapas
...great length (the wrtebrae being about thirty-three), a trunk and tail with the proportions of those of an ordinary quadruped, the ribs of a cameleon, and the paddles of a whale : — ' Such are the strange combinations of form and structure in the plesiosaurus ; a genus, the... | |
 | 1837 - 608 lapas
...— which, united to the head of a lizard, the teeth of a crocodile, a swan neck of enormous length, like the body of a serpent, the trunk and tail of...ordinary quadruped, the ribs of a cameleon, and the paddle legs of a whale. The last of the marine Saurians described by Dr Buckland, is the Mososaurus... | |
 | Charles Bucke - 1837 - 488 lapas
...great length (the vertebrse being about thirty- three), a trunk and tail with the proportions of those of an ordinary quadruped, the ribs of a cameleon, and the paddles of a whale. What a mass of fable would have descended to us, had the ancients known the bonassus of the Apalachian... | |
 | 1840 - 530 lapas
...neck of enormous length, resembling the body of a serpent; a trunk and tail having the proportions of an ordinary quadruped, the ribs of a cameleon, and the paddles of a whale. Such are the strange combinations of form and structure in the Pletiotaurtu,—a genus, the remains... | |
 | 1845 - 548 lapas
...and tail together, with thirty-five vertebra;, resembling the body of a serpent; and combining with the trunk and tail of an ordinary quadruped the ribs of a chameleon aud the body of a whale. It has four paddles, like the Ichthyosaurus, and seems to have lived... | |
 | Thomas Milner - 1848 - 892 lapas
...distinguishes its preceding congener, the head of a lizard, the teeth of a crocodile, a neck resembling the body of a serpent, the trunk and tail of an ordinary quadruped, the ribs of a chameleon, and the paddles of a whale. Its most striking feature is the great length of the neck, which... | |
 | 1840 - 524 lapas
...neck of enormous length, resembling the body of a serpent ; a trunk and tail having the proportions of an ordinary quadruped, the ribs of a cameleon, and the paddles of a whale. Such are the strange combinations of form and structure in the Plesiosaurus, — a genus, the remains... | |
 | 1853 - 1036 lapas
...neck of enormous length, resembling the body of a serpent, a trunk and tail having the proportions of an ordinary quadruped, the ribs of a cameleon, and the paddles of a whale. Such are the strange combinations of form and structure in the Hesiosaurus ; a genus, the remains of... | |
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... a trunk and tail having the proportions of an ordinary quadruped, the ribs of a cameleon, and the paddles of a whale. Such are the strange combinations of form and structure in the Plesiosaurus ; a genus, the remains of which, after interment for... 
