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III. CROCODILIA.—The crocodiles form another group of reptiles which has become isolated from all the contemporary groups or orders. The most perfect antithesis of the bird, the crocodile, is, nevertheless, in essentials, in strict conformity with the bird pattern; or, rather, both it and the bird conform to the pattern of some ideal or vanished reptile.
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On the Evolution of the Vertebrata 1 . Nature 20, 81–83 (1879). https://doi.org/10.1038/020081a0
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