ANTEDELUVIAN MONSTER.
Professor Marsh (America) describes the largest land animal yet known to have existed on the globe. Its name hj Atlanlaedurus Immanis, The thigh bone of this creature is over eight feet long, with a thickness at the larger end of twenty-five inches, though the bone has no true head. A comparison of this bone with the femur' of a crocodile would indicate that the fossil saurian, if of silimar proportions, had a total length of 115 feet. That the reptile was 100 feet long , when alive is at least probable. The other bones of this animal that have been found are proportionately gigantic ; caudal vertebra has a transverse diameter of more than sixteen inches. AH' the bones of this reptile yet discovered are in the Yale College Museum. They are from the Upper Jurassic of Colorado.
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Patea Mail, Volume VI, Issue 533, 15 June 1880, Page 3
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138ANTEDELUVIAN MONSTER. Patea Mail, Volume VI, Issue 533, 15 June 1880, Page 3
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