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skeleton Personalities in Paleontology Cope was an early evolutionist and synthesizer, bringing together large amounts of information from living and extinct animals to show the origin of modern groups from extinct species Also an excellent anatomist, he produced large monographs, with detailed descriptions and illustrations, that are still crucial to the study of vertebrate evolution Geochelone atlas 4 < ge o ke 1 On ee 8 t Us) 'land turtle* The true tortoises are highly terrestrial turtles with domeo shells and completely retractile heads limbs, and tails They live on an the continents except Australia and Antarctica and are the most recent ot the turtle groups to evolve Most tortoises are plant-eaters that nave adapted to life in and 7ones They are slow moving and rely on their armor for protection For reasons that are still unknown some tortoise species reached large sizes, as seen in the species of GeocMone displayed here Edward Drinker Cope Í JmttJ O/i«»« ( »/** Vi rtftiI »» êfl frewf. r/ •ttukroin. humf tnj fut.' He rjotJ jttr l.iV'.i i (1840-1897) Near the end of Cope's life, the American Museum of Natural History purchased his fossil collection It became the nucleus of the world's largest collection of fossil vertebrates AMNH 6332. coated Oy 6 Brown 1922 w*M ol Chandigarh. inda lau pliocene Georhelone atlas lived 2 million years ago
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