File:EB1911 Palaeontology - ichthyosaur skeleton.jpg

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English: One of the most perfect of the many specimens discovered and prepared by Herr Bernard Hauff, and showing the extraordinary preservation of the epidermis of the ichthyosaur, which gives the complete contour of the body in silhouette, the outlines of the paddles, of the remarkably fish-like tail, into the lower lobe of which the vertebral column extends, and the great integumentary dorsal fin.
Date published 1911
Source “Palaeontology,” Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.), v. 20, 1911, Plate I, fig. 3.
Author Unknown photographer
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Public domain This image comes from the 13th edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica or earlier. The copyrights for that book have expired in the United States because the book was first published in the US with the publication occurring before January 1, 1929. As such, this image is in the public domain in the United States.

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