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" The combination of such characters, some, as the sacral ones, altogether peculiar among Reptiles, others borrowed, as it were, from groups now distinct from each other, and all manifested by creatures far surpassing in size the largest of existing reptiles,... "
Petrifactions and Their Teachings: Or, A Hand-book to the Gallery of Organic ... - Page 219
by Gideon Algernon Mantell - 1851 - 496 pages
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Report of the Annual Meeting

British Association for the Advancement of Science - 1842 - 552 pages
...Mammals, and attest, with the hollow long-bones, the terrestrial habits of the species. The combination of such characters, some, as the sacral ones, altogether...a distinct tribe or sub-order of Saurian Reptiles, for which I would propose the name of Dinosaurio*. Of this tribe the principal and best established...
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The American Naturalist, Volume 25, Part 1

1891 - 638 pages
...mammals, and attest, with the hollow, long bones, the terrestrial habits of the species. The combination of such characters, some as the sacral ones, altogether...reptiles, others borrowed, as it were, from groups nA distinct from each other, and all manifested by creatures far surpassing in size the largest of...
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The Scientific Memoirs of Thomas Henry Huxley, Volume 3

Thomas Henry Huxley - 1901 - 714 pages
...peculiar among reptiles, others borrowed, as it were, from groups now distinct from each other, and also manifested by creatures far surpassing in size the...distinct tribe, or suborder, of Saurian reptiles, for which I would propose the name of Dinosauria. " Of this tribe the principal and best-established...
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The Scientific Memoirs of Thomas Henry Huxley, Volume 3

Thomas Henry Huxley - 1901 - 724 pages
...mammals, and attest, with the hollow long bones, the terrestrial habits of the species. " The combination of such characters, some, as the sacral ones altogether...were, from groups now distinct from each other, and also manifested by creatures far surpassing in size the largest of existing reptiles, will, it is presumed,...
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Report of the Annual Meeting, Volume 11

British Association for the Advancement of Science. Meeting - 1842 - 540 pages
...Mammals, and attest, with the hollow long -bones, the terrestrial habits of the species. The combination of such characters, some, as the sacral ones, altogether...in size the largest of existing reptiles, will, it w presumed, be deemed sufficient ground for establishing a distinct tribe or sub-order of Saurian Reptiles,...
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The Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, Volume 26

Geological Society of London - 1870 - 960 pages
...mammals, and attest, with the hollow long bones, the terrestrial habits of the species. " The combination of such characters, some, as the sacral ones, altogether...were, from groups now distinct from each other, and also manifested by creatares far surpassing in size the largest of existing reptiles, will, it is presumed,...
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The Great Dinosaur Hunters and Their Discoveries

Edwin Harris Colbert - 1984 - 384 pages
...Plymouth in 1841. It was published in 1842 in the Proceedings of the association. "The comhination of such characters, some, as the sacral ones, altogether...a distinct tribe or suborder of Saurian Reptiles, for which I would propose the name of Dinosauria" (Owen, 1842, page 103). In this manner Owen added...
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Gideon Mantell and the Discovery of Dinosaurs

Dennis R. Dean - 1999 - 320 pages
...they proved that dinosaurs were land dwellers. "The combination of such characters," Owen believed, "all manifested by creatures far surpassing in size...a distinct tribe or suborder of saurian reptiles, for which I would propose the name of Dinosauria" (103), a Greek derivation meaning "fearfully great...
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The Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, Volume 26

Geological Society of London - 1870 - 1074 pages
...mammals, and attest, with the hollow long bones, the terrestrial habits of the species. " The combination of such characters, some, as the sacral ones, altogether...were, from groups now distinct from each other, and also manifested by crea* Von Meyer refers to the ' Isis ' for 1830j as containing the first sketch...
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