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... greater number of the latter belong to the second order . In point of fact , the whole of the Silurian Cephalopoda , and nearly all the rest of the Palĉozoic ones , are believed to have been tetrabranchiate . With these then alone we ...
... greater number of the latter belong to the second order . In point of fact , the whole of the Silurian Cephalopoda , and nearly all the rest of the Palĉozoic ones , are believed to have been tetrabranchiate . With these then alone we ...
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... greater tenuity , consisting of one membrane only , and allows the viscera to be seen through it . According to all observers , the membranous siphon is a continuation of this membrane backwards through the various chambers . ' It is ...
... greater tenuity , consisting of one membrane only , and allows the viscera to be seen through it . According to all observers , the membranous siphon is a continuation of this membrane backwards through the various chambers . ' It is ...
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... greater aorta . The first arises from the under side near the centre , where its orifice is guarded by two valves . It is ultimately divided into three branches ; one passing to the nidamental gland in the female , a second to the ...
... greater aorta . The first arises from the under side near the centre , where its orifice is guarded by two valves . It is ultimately divided into three branches ; one passing to the nidamental gland in the female , a second to the ...
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... greater scarcity of these particles . The external surface of the shell , which has a number of lines of growth parallel to the curvature of the aperture , shows that this layer is gradually deposited by the edge of the mantle . This ...
... greater scarcity of these particles . The external surface of the shell , which has a number of lines of growth parallel to the curvature of the aperture , shows that this layer is gradually deposited by the edge of the mantle . This ...
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... greater number belonging to the genus Orthoceras . The next common is the elliptic ; the long axis of which may either lie in the plane of symmetry , when the section is said to be direct , or perpendicular to it , when the section is ...
... greater number belonging to the genus Orthoceras . The next common is the elliptic ; the long axis of which may either lie in the plane of symmetry , when the section is said to be direct , or perpendicular to it , when the section is ...
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Actinoceras annulatum aperture appears Aymestry Bala Beds Bala Series Barrande basal diameter body-chamber Bohême British Builth Carboniferous central Cephalopods chamber characters cicatrix circular collection of Dr compressed concave Coniston convex side convexity curve CYRTOCERAS Description.-The Desertcreat distance Distribution.-In dorsal Dudley elliptic Endoceras examples figured flattened Foss Fossils genus Geol GOMPHOCERAS greatest diameter Grindrod ibex imbrications inches last whorl layer Ledbury Leintwardine lines of growth Lituites Llandeilo Llandovery long diameter Lower Ludlow Lower Silurian Ludlow of Ledbury M'Coy Museum of Practical Nautiloidea Nautiloids Nautilus nearly oblique ornaments ORTHOCERAS Orthocerata Phragmoceras Portlock Practical Geology rate of increase ratio riblets ribs Salter seen septa septa are direct septal surface septum Shale shell sigmoid Silur Silurian rocks siphuncle slightly Sowerby in Murchison's species specimen sutures Syst transverse Trochoceras Type.-The section undulating Upper Llandovery Upper Ludlow Upper Silurian ventral side Wenlock Limestone Wenlock Shale whorl Woodwardian Museum
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Page 69 - PORTLOCK.- REPORT ON THE GEOLOGY OF THE COUNTY of LONDONDERRY, and of Parts of Tyrone and Fermanagh, examined and described under the Authority of the Master-General and Board of Ordnance. By JE PORTLOCK, FRS &c.
Page 77 - FREDERICK M°CoY, FGS One vol., Royal 410. Plates, /i. is. A CATALOGUE OF THE COLLECTION OF CAMBRIAN AND SILURIAN FOSSILS contained in the Geological Museum of the University of Cambridge, by JW SALTER, FGS With a Portrait of PROFESSOR SEDGWICK.
Page 78 - On the Succession of the Ancient Rocks in the vicinity of St. David's, Pembrokeshire, with special reference to those of the Arenig and Llandeilo Groups, and their Fossil Contents,
Page 77 - Silnrians. p. 170 -174.) On the tripartite classification of the Lower Palaeozoic Rocks, in: Geol. Mag. N. Ser. Dec. II. Vol. VI. 1879. p. 1—15. (Dnrch die fossile Fauna bestimmt.) and J. Wilson, On the Silurian Rocks of the Counties of Roxburgh and Selkirk.
Page 75 - On the Break between the Upper and Lower Silurian Rocks of the Lake District, as seen between Kirkby Lonsdale and Malham, near Settle, in : Geol.
Page 140 - ... connects it with O. semicircularis, Eichw. and O. carinata, Conrad, Ann. Rep. 1839, p. 64. Nevertheless I do not feel sure that this may not ultimately prove a variety of O. callactis, Dalm., a species which unfortunately has never been published with sufficient detail. ORTHOCERAS VAGANS, Salter, MSS. Smooth ; long tapering when young, more conical when old : septa broad elliptical, oblique on the longer axis, moderately distant in the young shell, distant by more than the diameter in mid-age,...
Page 74 - ... Quart. Journ. Sc. Vol. 3. 1863. p. 178—179. Note on the Fossils [of part of the Counties of Cork and Kerry.] in : Explanations to accompany sheet 197 and 198, and the south east part of 191, of the maps of the Geol. Survey of Ireland. Dublin, 1860.
Page 75 - and " Bala limestones," near Oswestry. (ditto), 343-7. 4. Denudation, unconformability, and the Vale of Clwyd. (ditto), 476-8. 5. List of fossils described from the Bala limestone and its associated beds of North Wales. Liverpool Geol. Soc. Proc., vi, 1865, 30-4.
Page 105 - On the surface of these caps the deeper furrows lie on the side nearest to the siphuncle ; they are generally median, but occasionally paired ; on the other side are three or more lighter furrows, which occasionally bifurcate. It is difficult to conjecture the cause of these phenomena, which must have had their origin between the formation of one septum and the next. I can only...
Page 71 - ... rocks, and in which, in its published form, the first Scottish Maclurea was figured and described, though somewhat doubtfully, from the imperfect state of keeping of the specimen, and under another name. At the meeting of the British Association held in this city in 1850, Professor Sedgwick read a paper on the Geological Structure and Relations of the Frontier Chain of Scotland...