Extinct order from the superorder of Sauropterygia

The book of the great sea-dragons, ichthyosauri and plesiosauri. [Gedolim taninim] gedolim taninim, of Moses. Extinct monsters of the ancient earth. With thirty plates, copied from skeletons in the author's collection of fossil organic remains, (deposited in the British museum.) / By Thomas Hawkins.

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The book of the great sea-dragons, ichthyosauri and plesiosauri. [Gedolim taninim] gedolim taninim, of Moses. Extinct monsters of the ancient earth. With thirty plates, copied from skeletons in the author's collection of fossil organic remains, (deposited in the British museum.) / By Thomas Hawkins.