The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online

RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. [Abstract of Athenaeum, 1841]. CUL-DAR205.9.134. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 9.2021. RN1

NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin. The volume CUL-DAR205.9 contains notes on palaeontology and geology [regarding theory of evolution].

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Athenaeum /41/ p. 228. Geolog. Soc. Owen teeth from Warwickshire of Phytosaurus. properly belonging to the Batrachian order of reptiles - new Red Sandstone!! calls it Labyrinthodon - no investigation of recent teeth could have given idea of singular & complicated modification of dental structure in these teeth - Hence reverse of greater simplicity in old ages - Cuidado!

[R. Owen. 1841. On the Teeth of species of Labyrinthodon (Mastodonsaurus and Phytosaurus? of Jaéger), from the German Keuper and the Sandstone of Warwick and Leamington." Athenaeum, vol. 1 (20 March): 227-228.]

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