 | Richard Owen - Paleontology - 1861 - 490 pages
...Coceosteus down to the posterior termination of the dorsal plate the creature was cased in strong armour, the plates of which remain as freshly preserved in...cuirass ; and so we find its remains in the state in which those of some of the soldiers of Napoleon's old guard, that had been committed unstripped to... | |
 | Richard Owen - Extinct animals - 1861 - 552 pages
...from the pointed termination of the plate immediately over the dorsal fin to the tail, coinprising more than one half the entire length of the animal,...cuirass; and so we find its remains in the state in which those of some of the soldiers of Napoleon's old guard, that had been committed unstripped to... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1864 - 862 pages
...body as far down as the origin of the dorsal fin, from which to the tailcomprising more than one-half the entire length of the animal— all seems to have been exposed without the protection even of a scale. In a well-preserved specimen in the British Museum, the remains of the endoskeleton... | |
 | Hugh Miller - 1865 - 542 pages
...snout of the Coccosteus down to the posterior termination of the dorsal pL.te, the creature was eased in strong armor, the plates of which remain as freshly...of even a scale, and there survives in the better specimena only the internal skeleton of the fish and the ray-bones of the fins. It was armed, like... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1868 - 854 pages
...far down as the origin of the dorsal fin, from which to the tail — comprising more than one-half the entire length of the animal — all seems to have been exposed without the protection even of a scale. In a well-preserved specimen in the British Museum, the remains of the endoskeleton... | |
 | Hugh Miller - Geology - 1869 - 528 pages
...Coccosteus down to the posterior termination of the dorsal plate, the creature was cased in strong armour, the plates of which remain as freshly preserved in...cuirass ; and so we find its remains in the state in which those of some of the soldiers of Napoleon's old guard, that had been committed unstripped to... | |
 | Hugh Miller - Geology - 1872 - 504 pages
...Coccosteus down to the posterior termination of the dorsal plate, the creature was cased in strong armour, the plates of which remain as freshly preserved in...cuirass ; and so we find its remains in the state in which those of some of the soldiers of Napoleon's old guard, that had been committed unstripped to... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1880 - 892 pages
...the dorsal and ventral aspects of the body as far down as the origin of the dorsal tin, from which to the tail — comprising more than one half the...seems to have been exposed without the protection even of a scale. In a well-preserved specimen in the ISritish museum, the remains of the eudo-skclcton... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1890 - 988 pages
...the dorsal and ventral aspects of the body as far down as the origin of the dorsal fin, from which to the tail — comprising more than one half the...seems to have been exposed without the protection even of a scale. In a well-preserved specimen in the British museum, the remains of the endo-skeleton... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1897 - 858 pages
...far down as the origin of the dorsal fin, from which to the tail — comprising more than one-half the entire length of the animal — all seems to have been exposed without the protection even of a scale. In a well-preserved specimen in the British Museum, the remains of the endo-skeleton... | |
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Coccosteus down to the posterior termination of the dorsal plate, the creature was cased in strong armour, the plates of which remain as freshly preserved in the ancient rocks of the country as those of the Pimelodi of the Ganges on the shelves of the... 