 The large vertebrae were formerly so abundant over the country in Alabama that they were used for making walls, or were burned to rid the fields of them.  Manual of geology - Pàgina 503per James Dwight Dana - 1863 - 798 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | James Dwight Dana - 1863 - 836 pàgines
...common, called the Zeuglodon cetoides, was probably about seventy feet in length. The large vertebrae were formerly so abundant over the country in Alabama...and a foot in diameter. Fig. 808 A shows one of the yoie-shaped teeth to which the name (from CtuyAov, a yoke, and 0601%, tooth) alludes. The remains occur... | |
 | James Dwight Dana - 1863 - 922 pàgines
...common, called the Zeuglodon cctoidcs, was probably about seventy feet in length. The large vertebrne were formerly so abundant over the country in Alabama...burned to rid the fields of them. Some of the larger vertebrse are a foot and a half long and a foot in diameter. Fig. 808 A shows one of the yoA-e-shaped... | |
 | JAMES D,. DANA, M.A. LL.D. - 1869 - 820 pàgines
...common, called the Zeuglodon cetoides, was probably about seventy feet in length. The large vertebrae were formerly so abundant over the country in Alabama...burned to rid the fields of them. Some of the larger vertebrae are a foot and a half long and a foot in diameter. Fig. 808 A shows one of the yo^-shaped... | |
 | JAMES D. DANA, M.A., LL.D. - 1869 - 820 pàgines
...common, called the Zeuglodon cetoides, was probably about seventy feet in length. The large vertebrae were formerly so abundant over the country in Alabama...burned to rid the fields of them. Some of the larger vertebrae are a foot and a half long and a foot in diameter. Fig. 808 A shows one of the yo&e-shaped... | |
 | 1879 - 978 pàgines
...Professor Dana remarks: "The large vertebrae, some of them a foot and a half long and a foot in diameter, were formerly so abundant over the country in Alabama,...walls, or were burned to rid the fields of them." The teeth of this curious monster of the vasty Eocene deep were of two kinds, and included front teeth... | |
 | James Dwight Dana - 1875 - 864 pàgines
...seventy feet in length. The large vertebra?, some of them a foot and a half long and a foot in diameter, were formerly so abundant over the country, in Alabama,...making walls, or were burned to rid the fields of them. Fig. 917 shows one of the yoi-e-shaped teeth, to which the name (from Cfvy\r¡, yoke, and ¿Sors, tooth)... | |
 | Henry Alleyne Nicholson - 1877 - 448 pàgines
...according to Dana, " the large vertebrae, some of them a foot and a half long and a foot in diameter, were formerly so abundant over the country, in Alabama,...walls, or were burned to rid the fields of them." The great and important order of the Hoofed Quadrupeds ( Ungulata) is represented in the Eocene by... | |
 | 1879 - 794 pàgines
...Professor Dana remarks, " the large vertebrae, some of them a foot and a half long and a foot in diameter, were formerly so abundant over the country in Alabama,...walls, or were burned to rid the fields of them." The teeth of this curious monster of the vasty Eocene deep were of two kinds, and included front teeth... | |
 | Andrew Wilson - 1882 - 304 pàgines
...Professor Dana remarks, "The large vertebrae, some of them a foot and a half long and a foot in diameter, were formerly so abundant over the country in Alabama,...walls, or were burned to rid the fields of them." The teeth of this curious monster of the vasty Eocene deep were of two kinds, and included front teeth... | |
 | George McCready Price - 1913 - 290 pàgines
...according to Dana, "the large vertebrae, some of them a foot and a half long and a foot in diameter, were formerly so abundant over the country in Alabama...walls, or were burned to rid the fields of them." — "Ancient Life-History," p. 300. Shortly before his death in 1895, Dana prepared a revised edition... | |
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