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  • And Professor Marsh immediately announced the discovery of _Titanosaurus_ (_Atlantosaurus_) _immanis_,

    Dinosaurs With Special Reference to the American Museum Collections William Diller Matthew 1900

  • British Megalosaurus only extended twenty-five feet in length, and carried weight not exceeding three tons; but, his rival Ceteosaurus stood ten feet high, and measured fifty feet from the tip of his snout to the end of his tail; while the dimensions of Titanosaurus may be briefly described as sixty feet by thirty, and those of Atlantosaurus as one hundred by thirty-two.

    Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science Grant Allen 1873

  • Atlantosaurus, the great lizard of the west, _in propria persona_.

    Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science Grant Allen 1873

  • 'The Atlantosaurus,' said I, pointing affectionately with a wave of my left hand to all that was immortal of that extinct reptile, 'is estimated to have had a total length of one hundred feet, and was probably the very biggest lizard that ever lived, even in Western

    Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science Grant Allen 1873

  • Iguanodon of Europe, and the huge Atlantosaurus of Colorado -- the largest land animal that has ever lived upon the earth [196] -- all belong to special developments of the reptilian type which flourished during the

    Darwinism (1889) Alfred Russel Wallace 1868

  • To be sure, in size and shape this 'extinct fish,' still living and grunting quietly in our midst, is comparatively insignificant beside the 'dragons of the prime' immortalised in a famous stanza by Tennyson: but, to the true enthusiast, size is nothing; and the barramunda is just as much a marvel and a monster as the Atlantosaurus himself would have been if he had suddenly walked upon the stage of time, dragging fifty feet of lizard-like tail in a train behind him.

    Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science Grant Allen 1873

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