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... representing , the " life " of the " period " in which the formation was deposited . The older geologists held , what ... represented only in some particular area , and yet , perhaps , as great as , or greater than , the whole time ...
... representing , the " life " of the " period " in which the formation was deposited . The older geologists held , what ... represented only in some particular area , and yet , perhaps , as great as , or greater than , the whole time ...
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... represented in a fossil condition . One or two of the latter , however , possess an integumentary covering capable under favourable circumstances of being preserved in rocks of recent age . The Monera present no structures capable of ...
... represented in a fossil condition . One or two of the latter , however , possess an integumentary covering capable under favourable circumstances of being preserved in rocks of recent age . The Monera present no structures capable of ...
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... represented in a fossil condition by their scales , bones , teeth , and defensive spines . The Amphibians are tolerably well represented by their bones and teeth , and , as regards one extinct order , by integu- mentary plates as well ...
... represented in a fossil condition by their scales , bones , teeth , and defensive spines . The Amphibians are tolerably well represented by their bones and teeth , and , as regards one extinct order , by integu- mentary plates as well ...
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... represented by any deposits ; and in Europe generally there are but frag- mentary traces of such . We may be quite sure , however , that during the time represented in Britain by the mere line of un- conformability between the Chalk and ...
... represented by any deposits ; and in Europe generally there are but frag- mentary traces of such . We may be quite sure , however , that during the time represented in Britain by the mere line of un- conformability between the Chalk and ...
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... represented by any formation of rock . In process of time we shall doubtless succeed in finding deposits to account for more or less of this " unrepresented time , " but much will ever remain for which we cannot hope to find the ...
... represented by any formation of rock . In process of time we shall doubtless succeed in finding deposits to account for more or less of this " unrepresented time , " but much will ever remain for which we cannot hope to find the ...
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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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