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Note on the Plerodactyle Tribe considered as Marsupial Bats. By Edward Newman, F.L.S. & Z.S.
"Ce sont incontestablement de tous les êtres dont ce livre nous révéle l'ancienne existence, les plus extraordinaires, et ceux qui, si on les voyait rivans, paroîtroient les plus étrangers à toute la nature actuelle."—Cuvier, Ossemens Fossiles, pt. 2, v. 379.
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The upper figure represents Pterodactylus crassirostris, the lower, Pter. brevirostris.
There existed at a certain but unknown era of the world, animals so different from any with which we are acquainted in a living state, that we seem almost lost in our attempts to understand their structure,
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