 | William Buckland - 1837 - 646 páginas
...nearly allied, in a greater degree than any other fossil animal exceeds its nearest living congeners. With the head and shoulders of a Sloth, it combined...Armadillo and Chlamyphorus, in being cased with a coat of armour. Its haunches were more than five feet wide, and its body twelve feet long and eight... | |
 | 1837 - 756 páginas
...existing Edentata, in a greater degree than any other fossil animal exceeds its nearest living congeners. With the head and shoulders of a Sloth, it combined in its legs and feet an admixture of the character of the AntEater, the Armadillo, and the Chlamyphorus ; it probably also still further resembled... | |
 | 1837 - 728 páginas
...With the head and shoulders of a Sloth, it combined in its legs and feet an admixture of the character of the AntEater, the Armadillo, and the Chlamyphorus...probably also still further resembled the Armadillo and Clamyphorus in being cased with a bony coat of armour. Its haunches were more than five feet wide,... | |
 | 1839 - 534 páginas
...nearly allied, in a greater degree than any other fossil animal exceeds its nearest living congeners. With the head and shoulders of a Sloth, it combined...a bony coat of armour. Its haunches were more than flve feet wide, and its body twelve feet long and eight feet high ;* its feet were a yaid in length,... | |
 | sir Woodbine Parish - 1839 - 480 páginas
...observes, it exceeds its nearest living congeners in a greater degree than any other known fossil animal. With the head and shoulders of a sloth, it combined,...the ant-eater, the armadillo, and the chlamyphorus : the latter it probably still further resembled in being cased with a bony coat of armour. Measuring... | |
 | 1839 - 532 páginas
...any other fossil animal exceeds its nearest living congeners. With the head and shoulders of a Slolh, it combined in its legs and feet an admixture of the...characters of the Ant-Eater, the Armadillo, and the Chlaraypliorus; it probably also still further resembled the Armadillo and hlamyphorus, in being cased... | |
 | Gideon Algernon Mantell - 1839 - 518 páginas
...the sloths, armadillos, and ant-eaters. The megatherium, with the head and shoulders of the sloth, combined in its legs and feet an admixture of the characters of the armadillo and ant-eater. Both the megalonyx and megatherium were herbivorous, but they were not capable... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1842 - 828 páginas
...termed, are well described and explained ni Dr Buckland's Bridgewater Treatise. After stating that with the head and shoulders of a sloth, it combined,...feet, an admixture of the characters of the ant-eater and the armadillo, and resembled them still more in being cased in a cent of armour, he continues,... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1842 - 820 páginas
...termed, are well described and explained hi Dr Auckland's Bridgewater Treatise. After stating that with the head and shoulders of a sloth, it combined,...legs and feet, an admixture of the characters of the nut-eater and the armadillo, and resembled them still more in being cased in a coat of armour, he continues,... | |
 | Frederick Collier Bakewell - 1854 - 170 páginas
...sloth larger than a rhinoceros, with legs and tail exceeding in strength those of any other animal. With the head and shoulders of a sloth, it combined in its legs and feet the characters of the ant-eater and the armadillo, and it is supposed to have still further resembled... | |
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Its haunches were more than five feet wide, and its body twelve feet long and eight feet high ; its feet were a yard in length, and terminated by most gigantic claws... 
