Petrifactions and Their Teachings: Or, A Hand-book to the Gallery of Organic Remains of the British MuseumH. G. Bohn, 1851 - 496 pages |
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... islands ; one land produced , another destroyed ; the bottom of the ocean become a fertile soil ; whole races of animals extinct , and the bones and exuviæ of one class covered with the remains of another , and upon the graves of past ...
... islands ; one land produced , another destroyed ; the bottom of the ocean become a fertile soil ; whole races of animals extinct , and the bones and exuviæ of one class covered with the remains of another , and upon the graves of past ...
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... Island at the mouth of the Thames , there might be ob- tained in the course of a few months , and at a trifling cost , a more extensive and important series of the fruits of the Eocene periods , than is contained in all the museums of ...
... Island at the mouth of the Thames , there might be ob- tained in the course of a few months , and at a trifling cost , a more extensive and important series of the fruits of the Eocene periods , than is contained in all the museums of ...
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... Island pine ) they are arranged alternately ; and such is generally the case in the fossil coniferous wood of the secondary and palæozoic formations of England.2 Vestiges of the coniferæ occur in the various deposits from the earliest A ...
... Island pine ) they are arranged alternately ; and such is generally the case in the fossil coniferous wood of the secondary and palæozoic formations of England.2 Vestiges of the coniferæ occur in the various deposits from the earliest A ...
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... Islands , Australia , & c . Numerous extinct species and genera of this family occur in a fossil state , and they are especially abundant in the secondary deposits - the Lias and Oolite . In England the most fruitful locality is the ...
... Islands , Australia , & c . Numerous extinct species and genera of this family occur in a fossil state , and they are especially abundant in the secondary deposits - the Lias and Oolite . In England the most fruitful locality is the ...
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... island , a few feet above the layer of building - stone for which Portland has so long been celebrated . These fossils are found associated with the erect stems and prostrate trunks and branches of large coniferous trees , of which ...
... island , a few feet above the layer of building - stone for which Portland has so long been celebrated . These fossils are found associated with the erect stems and prostrate trunks and branches of large coniferous trees , of which ...
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ancient animal arch articular articulated beds belong birds body bones British Museum carnivora caudal vertebræ cavity cervical Cetiosaurus chalk characters clay collection colossal convex coracoid cranium Crocodile crocodilian Cuvier deposits dermal Dinornis discovered distal dorsal Eningen Eocene extinct extremity feet femur figured and described fishes formation fossil fossil remains fragments Gavial genera genus gigantic humerus Hylæosaurus Ichthyolites Ichthyosaurus Iguana Iguanodon imbedded inches long integument length Lign limestone lower jaw Maidstone mammalia margin Mastodon Medals of Creation Megalosaurus Memoir metatarsals Monte Bolca Mosasaurus numerous obtained Oolite Organic Remains original osseous paddles phalangeal plates Plesiosaurus portion posterior present Professor Owen quarry remarkable reptiles resemble ribs sandstone saurians scapula shells skeleton skull slab species specimens spine stems stone Stonesfield strata structure surface Sussex Table-case tail teeth Teleosaurus tertiary tibia Tilgate Forest tooth Trans transverse upper vertebral column Wall-case Wealden Wonders of Geology Zealand