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" ... whose remains have been found in the tertiary deposits of the Rocky Mountain region, that they are the most remarkable of the many remarkable forms brought to light. The brain of these creatures was remarkable for its diminutive proportion. So small... "
Notices of the Proceedings - Page 115
by Royal Institution of Great Britain - 1879
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Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of ..., Volume 36

American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1888 - 476 pages
...remarkable for its diminutive proportion. So small indeed was the brain of Dinoceras mirabile that it could " apparently have been drawn through the neural canal of all the presacral vertebrae." In alluding to the successive disappearance of the large brutes, the cause is not difficult to find...
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The Popular Science Review: A Quarterly Miscellany of ..., Volume 15

James Samuelson, Henry Lawson, William Sweetland Dallas - 1876 - 508 pages
...reptilian brain in any known mammal. In I), mirabile the entire brain was actually so diminutive that it could apparently have been drawn through the neural...vertebrae, certainly through the cervicals and lumbars." Remains of Coryphodon mid Dinocerata.—The examination of a series of Mammalian remains, obtained...
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The Popular Science Review: A Quarterly Miscellany of ..., Volume 15

James Samuelson, Henry Lawson, William Sweetland Dallas - 1876 - 480 pages
...character. (See PI. CXXXVIII. fig. 3.) It was actually so diminutive (in Marsh's Dinoceras mirabile) that the entire brain could apparently have been drawn through the neural canal of all the presacral vertebra, certainly through the cervicals and lumbars. It was therefore exceedingly unlike that of...
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The Popular Science Monthly, Volume 10

1876 - 862 pages
...that of any known mammal. Indeed, it was almost reptilian, and of such diminutive size that it could have been drawn through the neural canal of all the presacral vertebrae. Prof. Marsh has followed up this discovery with the most important results, and is now prepared to...
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The American Naturalist, Volume 10

1876 - 800 pages
...reptilian brain in any known mammal. In D. mirabile the entire brain was actually so diminutive that it could apparently have been drawn through the neural...vertebrae, certainly through the cervicals and lumbars." MOUNTAIN-MAKING. — An abstract of Professor Suess's memoir on the Origin of the Alps has been furnished...
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Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of ..., Volume 25

American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1877 - 448 pages
...any other known mammal. Indeed, it was almost reptilian, and of such diminutive size that it could have been drawn through the neural canal of all the presacral vertebrae. Prof. Marsh has followed up this discovery with the most important results, and is now prepared to...
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The Popular Science Monthly, Volume 10

1877 - 804 pages
...that of any known mammal. Indeed, it was almost reptilian, and of such diminutive size that it could have been drawn through the neural canal of all the presacral vertebrae. Prof. Marsh has followed up this discovery with the most important results, and is now prepared to...
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Proceedings, Volume 25

American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1877 - 452 pages
...any other known mammal. Indeed, it was almost reptilian, and of such diminutive size that it could have been drawn through the neural canal of all the presacral vertebrae. Prof. Marsh has followed up this discovery with the most important results, and is now prepared to...
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A manual of zoology

Henry Alleyne Nicholson - 1878 - 854 pages
...reptilian brain in any known Mammal. In D. mirabile, the entire brain was actually so diminutive that it could apparently have been drawn through the neural canal of all the pnesacral vertebras, certainly through the cervicals and lumbars." The chief genera which are included...
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The Journal of the Royal institution of Great Britain. Notices of ..., Volume 8

Royal institution of Great Britain - 1879 - 724 pages
...was almost reptilian in its character. It was actually so diminutive (in Marsh's Dinoceras mirabile) that the entire brain could apparently have been drawn...unlike that of modern Proboscideans. These animals, takmg the totality of their organization into consideration, appear to belong to the great Ungulated...
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