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Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Type Specimens of Reptiles and Amphibians in the U.S. National Museum (United States National Museum bulletin #220; 1961), by Doris M. Cochran (page images at HathiTrust)
• Adventures With Reptiles: The Story of Ross Allen (New York: J. Messner, c1951), by Clarence J. Hylander (page images at HathiTrust)

• Beiträge zur Entwicklungsgeschichte von Zähnen und Gebiss der Reptilien (in German; Bonn: F. Cohen, 1919), by M. W. Woerdeman (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Amphibians and Reptiles in West Virginia (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press with the WV Dept. of Nat'l Resources Nongame Wildlife Program, c1987), by N. Bayard Green and Thomas K. Pauley (page images at Pitt)

• The Reptiles of British India (London: Printed for the Ray Society by R. Hardwicke, 1864), by Albert C. L. G. Günther (multiple formats at archive.org)

• A Natural History of Reptiles, Serpents, and Insects (based on Buffon's Natural History; Alnwick: W. Davison, ca. 1820), contrib. by Georges Louis Leclerc Buffon, illust. by Thomas Bewick (multiple formats at archive.org)

• A Gallery of Dinosaurs and Other Early Reptiles (with descriptions of other books; c1989), by David Peters (PDF files with commentary at davidpetersstudio.com)

• A Gallery of Dinosaurs and Other Early Reptiles (with descriptions of other books; c1989), by David Peters (PDF files with commentary at davidpetersstudio.com)

• The Physiology of Large Reptiles, With Special Reference to the Heat Production of Snakes, Tortoises, Lizards and Alligators (Carnegie Institution of Washington publication #425; 1932), by Francis Gano Benedict (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Natural History of Reptiles, Serpents, and Insects (based on Buffon's Natural History; Alnwick: W. Davison, ca. 1820), contrib. by Georges Louis Leclerc Buffon, illust. by Thomas Bewick (multiple formats at archive.org)

• A Monograph of the Testudinata, by Thomas Bell (frame- and Javascript-dependent page images at rarebookroom.org)

• Water Reptiles of the Past and Present (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1914), by Samuel Wendell Williston
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Water Reptiles of the Past and Present (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1914), by Samuel Wendell Williston
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Decline of the Sea Turtles: Causes and Prevention (1990), by National Research Council Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Crocodilian, Tuatara, and Turtle Species of the World: An Online Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, ed. by F. Wayne King and Russell L. Burke (illustrated HTML at ufl.edu)

• The Alligator and Its Allies (New York: G. Putnam's Sons, 1915), by Albert Moore Reese (page images at Google; US access only)

• Laboratory Anatomy of the Alligator (Dubuque: W. C. Brown Co., c1962), by Robert B. Chiasson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Uncle Wiggily's June Bug Friends (Newark, NJ and New York: C. E. Graham Co., c1922), by Howard Roger Garis, illust. by Lansing Campbell (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Mémoires sur les Téléosauriens de l'Époque Jurassique du Département de Calvados: Premier Mémoire, Contenant l'Exposé des Caractères Généraux des Téléosauriens Comparés à Ceux des Crocodiliens et la Description Particulière des Espèces du Lias Supérieur (in French; Caen: A. Hardel, 1863), by M. Eud. Deslongchamps
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Crocodile: An Extraordinary Incident, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, trans. by Constance Garnett (HTML at online-literature.com)

• The Story of Little Black Mingo, by Helen Bannerman (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Story of Little Black Mingo (second edition; London: J. Nisbet and Co., n.d.), by Helen Bannerman (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• A Study of the Phytosaurs, With Description of New Material from Western North America (Memoirs of the University of California v10; 1930), by Charles Lewis Camp (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Ichthyosaurier des Lias und ihre Zusammenhänge (in German; Berlin: Gebrüder Borntraeger, 1922), by Friedrich R. Huene (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Dinosaur Book: The Ruling Reptiles and Their Relatives (second edition; New York et al.: Pub. for the American Museum of Natural History by McGraw-Hill Book Co., c1951), by Edwin H. Colbert, illust. by John C. Germann and Charles Robert Knight (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Dinosaur Book: The Ruling Reptiles and Their Relatives (second edition; New York et al.: Pub. for the American Museum of Natural History by McGraw-Hill, 1951), by Edwin H. Colbert, illust. by John C. Germann and Charles Robert Knight (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Dinosaur Book: The Ruling Reptiles and Their Relatives (Man and Nature Publications handbook #14; New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1945), by Edwin H. Colbert, illust. by John C. Germann and Charles Robert Knight (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Dinosaurs of Canada (Toronto: Royal Ontario Museum, c1965), by W. E. Swinton (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Dinosaur Book: The Ruling Reptiles and Their Relatives (second edition; New York et al.: Pub. for the American Museum of Natural History by McGraw-Hill Book Co., c1951), by Edwin H. Colbert, illust. by John C. Germann and Charles Robert Knight (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Dinosaur Book: The Ruling Reptiles and Their Relatives (second edition; New York et al.: Pub. for the American Museum of Natural History by McGraw-Hill, 1951), by Edwin H. Colbert, illust. by John C. Germann and Charles Robert Knight (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Dinosaurs (Science Guide #70; New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1947), by Edwin H. Colbert (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Dinosaur Book: The Ruling Reptiles and Their Relatives (Man and Nature Publications handbook #14; New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1945), by Edwin H. Colbert, illust. by John C. Germann and Charles Robert Knight (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Dinosaur Hunting in Western Canada (Royal Ontario Museum Life sciences contribution #70, c1966), by Loris S. Russell (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Dinosaurs of North America (extract from the 16th annual report of the U.S. Geological Survey, ca. 1895), by Othniel Charles Marsh (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Great Dinosaur Mistake, by Kelly L. Segraves (HTML at parentcompany.com)

• Out of Thin Air: Dinosaurs, Birds, and Earth's Ancient Atmosphere (Washington: Joseph Henry Press, c2006), by Peter D. Ward (HTML and page images with commentary at NAP)

• Out of Thin Air: Dinosaurs, Birds, and Earth's Ancient Atmosphere (Washington: Joseph Henry Press, c2006), by Peter D. Ward (HTML and page images with commentary at NAP)

• The Lost World, by Arthur Conan Doyle (Gutenberg text)
• The Lost World (London et al.: Hodder and Stoughton, n.d.), by Arthur Conan Doyle (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Lost World (New York: Hodder and Stoughton, George H. Doran Co., c1912), by Arthur Conan Doyle
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org; frontispiece missing
• Propashchyĭ Svit (The Lost World in Ukrainian; Lviv: Nakl. Ukrainskoi Spilky, 1922), by Arthur Conan Doyle, illust. by Harry Rountree (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Tyrone and the Swamp Gang, by Hans Wilhelm (PDF at Wayback Machine)
• Horace (New York : E.P. Dutton and Co., 1951), by Elizabeth Urquhart, illust. by Rosita Pastor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tyrone the Double Dirty Rotten Cheater, by Hans Wilhelm (PDF at Wayback Machine)
• Tyrone the Horrible, by Hans Wilhelm (PDF at Wayback Machine)

• The Book of the Great Sea-Dragons, Ichthyosauri and Plesiosauri (London: W. Pickering, 1840), by Thomas Hawkins
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • illustrated transcription: PDF at Wayback Machine
• Memoirs of Ichthyosauri and Plesiosauri, Extinct Monsters of the Ancient Earth (London: Rolfe and Fletcher, 1834), by Thomas Hawkins (PDF at Wayback Machine)
• Die Ichthyosaurier des Lias und ihre Zusammenhänge (in German; Berlin: Gebrüder Borntraeger, 1922), by Friedrich R. Huene (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Crocodilian, Tuatara, and Turtle Species of the World: An Online Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, ed. by F. Wayne King and Russell L. Burke (illustrated HTML at ufl.edu)
• A Monograph of the Testudinata, by Thomas Bell (frame- and Javascript-dependent page images at rarebookroom.org)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.