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IN the remarkable collection of fossil vertebrates obtained by the late Prof. O. C. Marsh for the Peabody Museum of Yale University, there are many groups of which he only published preliminary notices. Among these the toothless Pterodactyls, which he was the first to discover in the chalk of Kansas, are specially deserving of attention. During the past ten years they have been studied in detail by Dr. George F. Eaton, who has now completed his researches and published a beautifully illustrated memoir, which will be welcomed by palaeontologists. So long ago as 1904 Dr. Eaton prepared for the St. Louis Exposition a model of the skeleton of Pteranodon, of which a copy was subsequently given to the British Museum (Natural History), where it is exhibited in the Gallery of Reptiles. In his new work he now reviews the whole of the material which forms the basis of this restoration (shown in the accompanying figure), and his concise descriptions are illustrated not only by admirable photographs of the fossils themselves, but also by explanatory sketches of several of the most important parts.
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“Osteology of Pteranodon”. By Dr. G. F. Eaton. Pp. 38+xxxi plates. Memoirs of the Connecticut Acadenry of Arts and Sciences, vol. ii. (New Haven, Connecticut: (Published under the auspices of the Yale University, 1910.)
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W., A. The Flying Reptiles of the Chalk Period 1 . Nature 89, 123 (1912). https://doi.org/10.1038/089123a0
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