Excerpt from On the Development of the Skeleton of the Tuatara, Sphenodon Punctatis: With Remarks on the Egg, on the Hatching, and on the Hatched Young
Cope, E. D. Americ. Nat. 1878, p. 327; Proc. Americ. Philos. Soc. Vol. Xvii. 1878, pp. 510 - 526; Trans. Americ. Philos. Soc. Vol. Xvi. 1886, p. 243.
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