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CHAPTER XXII QLOSSARY Amphibious Dinosaurs=A group of swamp dwelling, herbivorous reptiles representing the Saropoda of America, Africa and Europe. The sauropod or sauropodous dinosaurs of the genera Brontosaurus, Diplodocus, Camarasaurus, Brachiosaurus, etc. Arthritides=Diseases of the Joints. Atlantosaurus Beds=Como Beds where sauropod dinosaurs occur. Badlands=Bare, rocky hills where fossils are readily found. Barosaurus=A genus of sauropod dinosaurs with long neck bones. Brachiosaurus=A genus of sauropod dinosaurs with the front leg as long or longer than the hind leg-America and Africa. Brachyceratops=A genus of horned dinos'aurs of small size. Brontosaurus=The "thunder lizard." A large sauropod found in Wyoming. Camarasaurus=A genus of sauropods collected at Garden Park, Colorado, and so named by E. D. Cope on account of the large spaces in the backbones. Cenozoic=The Age of Mammals. Ceratopsia=The horned dinosaurs of the Upper Cretaceous. Comanchean=A geological period between the Jurassic and the Cretaceous. Equivalent to the l\forrison Formation. Cerno, Wyorning=A railroad station now abandoned. Concretion=A rounded rock formation, harder than the rest of the rock. In Converse County the three-horned dinosaurs are found in the Lance Beds in sandstone concretions. Cretaceous=The "chalk age." A geological period of great interest. The closing period of the Mesozoic. Dipnoans=Lung fishes, found in fresh water deposits. Dinosauria=:;"Terrible lizards." The name was proposed by Sir Richard Owen for a group of fossil reptiles. Diplodocus=A genus of sauropod, "whip-vail" dinosaurs found in Colorado and V\Tyoming. Exostosis=A pathological growth on bone due to injury. Extinction=A phase of animal life involving the disappearance of groups of creatures in geological time. Haemangioma=A V'ascular tumor. Igualtodon=A genus of predentate "beaked" dinosaurs found in Belgium. Lacuna=A space in bone where a bone-cell existed during life. Lance Beds=A formation in the Upper Cretaceous cont'aining horned dinosaurs. 118
GLOSSARY 119 Matrix=The rock immediately surrounding a fossil. Mesozoic=The Age of Reptiles, comprising the Triassic, Jurassic, Co 'manchean and Cretaceous. Mon.cc1onius=A genus of horned dinosaur with
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