Word: oreodon
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...skeleton, almost complete, was collected in 1928 in the Big White River Badlands, Washington County, South Dakota. It was found in the upper concretionary formation which lies in the upper middle Oreodon zone and has a sufficient number of peculiar characteristics to be deserving of a new specific name...
...month with a poem on the Mauvaises Terres, and freely slings in flowing rhythm such terms as "Cenozoic twilight," "sutured skull," and "circumambient walls . . . . with alkaloid surcharged." Now, we can understand such an expression as "sepulchral tomb," - indeed, the meaning is only too plain, - but when it comes to "Oreodon" and "Titanotherium," - if this goes on, new metres will have to be devised with special reference to the scientific dictionary. We recommend this poem as a syllabus to all who elect Natural History...
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