Geological Stories: A Series of Autobiographies in Chronological OrderHardwicke & Bogue, 1879 - 301 páginas |
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... - Abundance of Cephalopods - Ammo- nites - Nautilus - Belemnites , or " thunder - bolts " -- Nume- rical abundance of Ammonites - Ditto of Belemnites - Census ― - PAGE of Liassic fossils - Brachiopods - Last appearance of xii CONTENTS .
... - Abundance of Cephalopods - Ammo- nites - Nautilus - Belemnites , or " thunder - bolts " -- Nume- rical abundance of Ammonites - Ditto of Belemnites - Census ― - PAGE of Liassic fossils - Brachiopods - Last appearance of xii CONTENTS .
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... are undoubtedly Paleozoic forms , associated with Ammonites and Belemnites , which are equally peculiar to the Secondary rocks . of the old and newer worlds met and commingled as. 118 THE STORY OF A PIECE OF ROCK - SALT .
... are undoubtedly Paleozoic forms , associated with Ammonites and Belemnites , which are equally peculiar to the Secondary rocks . of the old and newer worlds met and commingled as. 118 THE STORY OF A PIECE OF ROCK - SALT .
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... has been found fossilized and its ink so unexpended that the creature's likeness was drawn with it ! The Nautilus was an old inhabitant of the world when the Ammonite was introduced on the stage of WHAT THE PIECE OF JET HAD TO SAY ! 141.
... has been found fossilized and its ink so unexpended that the creature's likeness was drawn with it ! The Nautilus was an old inhabitant of the world when the Ammonite was introduced on the stage of WHAT THE PIECE OF JET HAD TO SAY ! 141.
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... Ammonites , for one species still Fig . 61 . Ammonites bifrons . represents it ! Seventeen European species of Nau- tilus are known from the Lias strata alone . But the Ammonites were by far the most abundant , and I may say also , by ...
... Ammonites , for one species still Fig . 61 . Ammonites bifrons . represents it ! Seventeen European species of Nau- tilus are known from the Lias strata alone . But the Ammonites were by far the most abundant , and I may say also , by ...
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... Ammonites obtusus . Side view of ditto . the margin of the outside , or back , of the shell . No fewer than 266 species of Ammonites are peculiar to the Lias deposits of Europe , whilst those of Britain * The characteristic shell of ...
... Ammonites obtusus . Side view of ditto . the margin of the outside , or back , of the shell . No fewer than 266 species of Ammonites are peculiar to the Lias deposits of Europe , whilst those of Britain * The characteristic shell of ...
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