Crossword-Solution: CHELONIA 8 letters, 4 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

Thus, three of Cuvier’s four orders of reptilia (_sauria_, _chelonia_, and _batrachia_) are represented in this formation, the serpent order (_ophidia_) being alone wanting.

Above this bed lie those which have been called the Wealden, from their full development in the Weald of Sussex; and these as incontestably argue that the dry land forming the dirt-bed had next afterwards become the area of brackish estuaries, or lakes partially connected with the sea; for the Wealden strata contain exuviæ of fresh-water tribes, besides those of the great saurians and chelonia.

Whatever may have been said of the devotion of our countrymen to material interests, the wise and winning lips had only to speak, and such a currency of _plastrons_ and _carapaces_ was set in circulation, that the contemplative stranger who saw the mighty coinage of Chelonia flowing in upon Cambridge might well have thought that the national idea was not the Almighty Dollar, but the Almighty Turtle.

Herbert, wishing to surprise Pencroff, did not tell him of the prize which was lying on its back upon the sand; but two hours later Neb and he returned with the cart to where they had left it, and—the “splendid specimen of chelonia mydas” was not there! The two looked about them.

That while even "horse ancestry" fails to supply such a desideratum, in very strongly marked and exceptional kinds (such as the Ichthyosauria, Chelonia, and Anoura), the absence of links is very important and significant.