10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PTERODACTYLE»
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The Transactions of the Microscopical Society of London
the carpus, sends forth extremely fine tendons over the convex surface of each of
the fingers, terminating in the last joint. In the pterodactyle, the digitus auricularis
that forms the wing, would seem to require proper extensors and Sectors ; and ...
2
Quarterly journal of microscopical science
the carpus, sends forth extremely fine tendons over the convex surface of each of
the fingers, terminating in the last joint. In the pterodactyle, the digitus auricularis
that forms the wing, would seem to require proper extensors and flectors ; and ...
3
The Transactions of the Microscopical Society of London
In the pterodactyle, the digitus auricularis that forms the wing, would seem to
require proper extensors and flectors ; and we may suppose that the pterodactyle
, in some degree, in the use of its limbs, approached the frog ; We also may
assume ...
Royal Microscopical Society (Great Britain), 1857
4
Natural History: Or, Second Division of "The English ...
PTERODACTYLE. PTERODACTYLE. 451 Blumenbach took a widely different
view of the subject, and referred this extraordinary form to the Palmipede or Web-
Footed Birds. Professor Hermann of Stmsburg, who drew upon his imagination
for ...
5
Geology and Inhabitants of the Ancient World
Remains of the Pterodactyle were first discovered, in 1784, by- Prof. Collini, in the
lithographic slate of Aichstadt, in Germany, which slate is a member of the oolitic
formations : the species so discovered was at first mistaken for a bird, and ...
Richard Owen, Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, 1854
We may suppose that the Pterodactyle in some degree in the use of its limbs
approached the frog ; we may also . . . that the muscular development of the fore
arm of the Pterodactyle was something between that of the bat, frog, and bird.
3) is the proximal end of the left humerus of a Pterodactyle : and since the other
fossil from the Tilgate strata (figs. 1 to 4) is the distal extremity of a left humerus,
presenting the same degree of approximation to that part in the bird, but with ...
THE VICE-SECRETARY OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY, 1846
8
The Ornithosauria: an elementary study of the bones of ...
The Pterodactyle sternum otherwise differs from the Bats in having the
articulations for the coracoids close together, of a peculiar concavo-convex
character, with a massive portion or keel prolonged forward in front of the
coracoid articulations.
Harry Govier Seeley, 1870
We may suppose that the Pterodactyle in some degree in the use of its limbs
approached the frog ; we may also . . . that the muscular development of the fore
arm of the Pterodactyle was something between that of the bat, frog, and bird.
Samuel Joseph Mackie, 1864
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A history of British fossil reptiles
In no other reptile does the sternum present coracoid articulations so shaped and
so placed' as in the Pterodactyle. The Crocodilia, in which, as in Pterosauria, the
clavicles are wanting, show the broad, sternal margins of the coracoids ...
