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... Cambrian Plants - Silurian Plants - De- vonian Plants , . 477-484 CHAPTER XLV . Carboniferous Plants - Origin and ... Upper Cambrian -- Life of the Cambrian Period- Primordial Zone - Skiddaw and Quebec Groups , CHAPTER XLVIII . 507-514 ...
... Cambrian Plants - Silurian Plants - De- vonian Plants , . 477-484 CHAPTER XLV . Carboniferous Plants - Origin and ... Upper Cambrian -- Life of the Cambrian Period- Primordial Zone - Skiddaw and Quebec Groups , CHAPTER XLVIII . 507-514 ...
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... Upper Laurentian and Huronian , and the Upper Cambrian and Lower Silurian . It may not be out of place to point out that the unconforma- bilities here indicated must in no way be confounded with the common cases in which beds of one age ...
... Upper Laurentian and Huronian , and the Upper Cambrian and Lower Silurian . It may not be out of place to point out that the unconforma- bilities here indicated must in no way be confounded with the common cases in which beds of one age ...
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... Upper Silurian Rocks for the first time . Granting the probability that Fishes may some day be found in the Lower Silurian Rocks , or even in Cambrian deposits , there still seems no likelihood that they will be deprived by any future ...
... Upper Silurian Rocks for the first time . Granting the probability that Fishes may some day be found in the Lower Silurian Rocks , or even in Cambrian deposits , there still seems no likelihood that they will be deprived by any future ...
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... Upper Silurian Rocks were in any way degraded members of their order , or inferior in point of organisation to the ... Cambrian period to the present day . It is also to be remembered , that though the commencement of the Inver- tebrate ...
... Upper Silurian Rocks were in any way degraded members of their order , or inferior in point of organisation to the ... Cambrian period to the present day . It is also to be remembered , that though the commencement of the Inver- tebrate ...
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... ( Upper Cambrian ? ) of Canada . The general form in this genus is that of a hollow cone or hollow cylinder , enclosing a large cup - shaped cavity , and tapering towards one ex- tremity , which was presum- ably fixed to some foreign body ...
... ( Upper Cambrian ? ) of Canada . The general form in this genus is that of a hollow cone or hollow cylinder , enclosing a large cup - shaped cavity , and tapering towards one ex- tremity , which was presum- ably fixed to some foreign body ...
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abundant allied ambulacral anchylosed animal aperture appear appendages articulated attained beak beds belong Birds Bivalves body bones bony Brachiopods calcareous calyx Cambrian Carboniferous Carboniferous Rocks Cephalopods Chalk characterised clavicles commence composed comprising consists coral Cretaceous Cretaceous period Crinoids Crustaceans deposits Devonian division dorsal Eocene Eocene Tertiary existing extinct feet fins fishes Foraminifera formation forms fossil Ganoids genera genus gills Graptolites horny Hydrozoa incisors integument Jurassic known Lastly latter less limbs Limestone living lower jaw Lower Silurian Mammals margin Mesozoic Miocene molars Mollusca mouth occur Oolites operculum pair Paleozoic pectoral Permian placed plants plates Pliocene Polyzoa possession Post-Pliocene Post-Tertiary posterior present day regarded remains represented Reptiles ribs Sandstone segments septa shell side Silurian Rocks single siphuncle skeleton sometimes spines strata structure sub-kingdom sub-order surface sutures tail teeth toes Trias Triassic tube Upper Cambrian Upper Silurian usually vertebræ whilst whorls Zoantharia
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