RE: ERB and fossil vertebrates

["Don Lamson" <dllamson@qwest.net>]

http://classicreader.com/fiction/Edgar-Rice-Burroughs/

At the above address, you can read the following


                    At the Earth's Core
                    Beasts of Tarzan, The
                    Gods of Mars, The
                    Jungle Tales of Tarzan, The
                    Land That Time Forgot, The
                    Lost Continent, The
                    Monster Men, The
                    Out of Time's Abyss
                    Outlaw of Torn, The
                    Pellucidar
                    People Out of Time
                    Return of Tarzan, The
                    Son of Tarzan, The
                    Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar
                    Tarzan of the Apes
                    Tarzan the Terrible
                    Tarzan the Untamed
                    Thuvia
                    Warlord of Mars, The



> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-dinosaur@usc.edu [mailto:owner-dinosaur@usc.edu]On Behalf Of
> M Murphy
> Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2001 3:42 PM
> To: dinosaur@usc.edu
> Subject: Re: ERB and fossil vertebrates
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> James Farlow wrote:
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> > I read all of Burroughs' paleo-oriented books as a kid.  My
> favorite was the Land That Time Forgot series, with its truly
> wild take on ontogeny recapitulating phylogeny.  I
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> Was this the book with the three-eyed ichthyosaur?  If so, where
> did ERB get the idea from (the blowholes of porpoises/dolphins?)
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> M.J. Murphy
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> `The shapes of things are dumb.'
> -L. Wittgenstein
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