| Show A NEW X i roil prof professor or cope cop 0 of f geological coc 1 g ia 1 surrey sey of ti the ie territories rl re I 1 cantly tl dise discovered v er d a cemarka remarkable ble deposit of fossil bo bones in so southern athern wyoming ire found numerous remains of lar large lare e crocodiles hoofed ani anibale male with formidable teeth as large as the auf fl falo 0 and other species tho most remarkable kable is an animal siao or of the mastodon of which buge bones bonca of no lees than gix individuals were found lying near together r this species is is new to science and is Is a that is a rela relative tivo of tho the elephant mastodon and dinotte gium it was like them in its numerous nier short thick toes coca simple thighbone h etc etal but differ differed Cd rem remarkably from them all in tile the possession of a pair of short divergent horns horna on the front the cores of these are ara faldt and 9 ix inches long tile the skull was vertical sod and flat fiat behind and the cavities for the temporal muscles small email and lateral tho the neck was short the end of the upper arm bone Is is eight azill inches wide aud and tho the head of the ehin bono bone six six inches prof cope names dames cornu tug F B bleek of the same survey recently Ic lly obtained in southern wyoming 9 th the 0 b bones ones of vile one of the ills largo large Sau rians so remarkable for their relationship lation ship to the birds this was very tery large a measuring 28 inches in hei height glit and th the e hip bone four feet io in length the I 1 rump amp b bone one is i nearly three feet long its ita discovery proves that all tile great coal basin of wyoming belongs to the cretaceous period a point heretofore doubtful the monster wo was named sylve prof cope on the abovementioned above mentioned survey pro procured wred i a largi large part of a 3 strange quadruped which he calls call barias this creature was about the size of a bear and had bad enormous canino canine teeth in the upper jaw as well weli as a large incisor on each side tide t in the lower jaw instead of the usual seven there aro arc but two tiro at the end which are dose close together and shaped like those of a hu huge 0 gnawing animal they are ho however weTer wry very differ differently entry used and are worn on the side aide by attrition with the canines there were millions of turtles inthe in the lakes I 1 a k es near which this thia creature lived as attested by the remains of twenty species now found there it is surmised that abia ali n creature fed on these laimans lai mals and od for this its structure is remarkably cmar kably well adapted |
