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Last week such scenes were becoming possible. For stone slabs bearing dinosaur tracks are actually on the U. S. market. The Nash brothers (George Harlan, 28, and Carlton Snell, 26) of South Hadley, Mass. sell their Triassic wares not only to museums and universities, but also to strong-minded householders. Prices range from $4 to $30 or $40 per track, depending on size and depth...
Price and White have just returned from the field and have brought with them remains which constitute the finest cross-section of South American Triassic life ever made available for scientific study. Of the 30 nearly complete skeletons at least 15 are entirely new to science. About five years of museum work will be necessary to analyze these bones...
This native plaster industry which has been in operation for sixty years, has presumably destroyed untold quantities of Triassic fossils. The specimen from the new chasmatosaurid genus was rescued from a rock pile destined for one of the kilns...
...scrutinizing the Permian, and the immediately following Triassic, periods, the Harvard Paleontologists are dealing with the origins of the Mesozoic era, or the 100,000,000-year "reign" of the great reptiles. Developed from hardier amphibans, the Permian and Triassic reptiles were the first forms of life able to live and to rear their young outside the water. For millions of years the descendants of these pioneer land forms ruled the earth, taking final form in some cases as the giant dinosaurs. Then the reptile domain abruptly ended, and when the fossil story resumes, after a long lapse...
...another mammal-like family, the herbivorous "two-tusker," or dicynodont, the Harvard party obtained a number of good skulls and skeletons. These peaceful lizards, six feet or so in length, were among the commonest reptiles in the Triassic period, but were rapidly killed off, probably by their meat-eating cynodont relatives and other carnivorous forms...