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100 1 _aWilliston, Samuel Wendell,
_d1851-1918
245 1 0 _aWater Reptiles of the Past and Present
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2022
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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500 _aRelease date is 2022-02-03
508 _aPeter Becker and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
520 _a"Water Reptiles of the Past and Present" by Samuel Wendell Williston is a scientific publication written in the early 20th century. The work provides an authoritative account of various water reptiles, both extinct and extant, drawing on the author's extensive research and discoveries from his early career in paleontology. The text endeavors to be accessible to a non-specialist audience while retaining scientific accuracy and detail. The opening of the book begins with Williston's preface, which reflects on his early experiences collecting fossil water reptiles, such as mosasaurs and plesiosaurs, and outlines the book's purpose to document these creatures for a wider audience. He expresses gratitude to contemporaries and contributors in the field for their assistance and resources. Following the preface, the introduction discusses the common misconceptions surrounding reptiles, highlighting their diversity and the evolutionary connections among reptiles, amphibians, and mammals. It lays the groundwork for understanding reptilian classification and anatomy, leading into the subsequent chapters that delve into more specific aspects of reptilian biology and fossil records. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cUnited States: The University of Chicago Press, 1914
653 _aAquatic reptiles
653 _aAquatic reptiles, Fossil
856 4 _uhttps://archive.org/details/waterreptilesofp00will
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/67314
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