 | Natural history - 1830 - 596 pages
...vertebras, and is also furnished with paddles, intermediate between feet and fins. " This genus exhibits the snout of a dolphin, the teeth of a crocodile, the head and sternum of a lizard, the swimmers of a whale, and the vertebrae of a fish." Found in the lias, Stonesfield slate, Oxford clay,... | |
 | Henry Thomas De La Beche - Geology - 1832 - 590 pages
...our planet. And Strange inhabitants they undoubtedly were: for, as Cuvier says, the Ichthyosaurus has the snout of a dolphin, the teeth of a crocodile,...the head and sternum of a lizard, the extremities of cetacea fbeing, however, four in number), and the vertebrae of fish; while the Plesiosaurus has, with... | |
 | Henry Thomas De La Beche - Geology - 1832 - 568 pages
...strange inhabitants they undoubtedly were; for, as Cuvier says, the Ichthyosaurus has the snout of dolphin, the teeth of a crocodile, the head and sternum of a lizard, the extremities of cetacea (being, however, four in number), and the vertebrae of fish; while the Plesiosaurus has, with... | |
 | Henry Thomas De La Beche - Geology - 1833 - 652 pages
...planet. And strange inhabitants they undoubtedly were : for, as Cuvier says, the Ichthyosaurus has the snout of a dolphin, the teeth of a crocodile,...however, four in number), and the vertebrae of fish ; while the Plesiosauras has, with the same cetaceous extremities, the head of a lizard, and a neck... | |
 | Henry Thomas De La Beche - Geology - 1833 - 662 pages
...our planet. And strange inhabitants they undoubtedly were: for, as Cuvier says, the Ichthyosaurus has the snout of a dolphin, the teeth of a crocodile,...the head and sternum of a lizard, the extremities of cetacea (being, however, four in number), and the vertebrae of fish; while the Plesiosauras has, with... | |
 | George Roberts - Antiquities, Prehistoric - 1834 - 364 pages
...The paddle is formed so as to possess a great propelling power.* The ichthyosaurus (says Cuvier) has the snout of a dolphin, the teeth of a crocodile,...the head and sternum of a lizard, the extremities of cetacea (being however four in number), and the vertebree of fish. COPROLITES.—Numerous small bodies... | |
 | Ireland commissioners of nat. educ - 1835 - 398 pages
...have darted very swiftly through the water. It was a most singular combination of forms, for it had the snout of a dolphin, the teeth of a crocodile, the head and breast-bone of a lizard, extremities like the marine mammalia, and vertebrae like a fish. We can, however,... | |
 | Gideon Algernon Mantell - Geology - 1839 - 444 pages
...lizards, or saurians, than the animals of the other genus. The ichthyosaurus had the beak of a porpoise, the teeth of a crocodile, the head and sternum of a lizard, the paddles of eetacea,and the vertebrae offish. This restoration (Tab. 93) shows its general configuration.... | |
 | Gideon Algernon Mantell - Geology - 1839 - 464 pages
...lizards, or saurians, than the animals of the other genus. The ichthyosaurus had the beak of a porpoise, the teeth of a crocodile, the head and sternum of a lizard, the paddles of cetacea,and the vertebrae offish. This restoration (Tab. 93) shows its general configuration.... | |
 | Gideon Algernon Mantell - Geology - 1838 - 388 pages
...54.—RESTORED FIGURE op THE ICHTHYOSAURUS. (From Afr. Hawkins.) The ichthyosaurus had the beak of a porpoise, the teeth of a crocodile, the head and sternum of a lizard, the paddles of cetacea, and the vertebrae of fish. This restoration shows its general configuration. There... | |
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as having the snout of a dolphin, the teeth of a crocodile, the head and sternum of a lizard, the extremities of cetácea, * (being, however, four in number,) and the vertebrae of fish. 
