Antediluvian Phytology: Illustrated by a Collection of the Fossil Remains of Plants Peculiar to the Coal Formations of Great Britain |
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Adolphe Brongniart appear articulations usually forming Artis London 1824 bambusia bark Baron Schlotheim branches CALAMITES approximatus cicatrices coal formation compressed Count Sternberg Curtis cylindrical described or figured Description and Locality E. T. Artis E.T.Artis London 1824 El-se-car new colliery EUPHORBITES vulgaris feet in length fibrous figure represents flat surface forming rings round fossil plant found described Found imbedded frond fructification genera genus hollow horizontal impressions inserted Irish elk J.Curtis lanceolate Lea-brook quarry Leaf leaf-bearing leaflets leaves or spines Lepidodendron linear longitudinally striated lower extremity MEGAPHYTON numerous Observations Osmunda Pinnules pith plate poacites Pub by E.T.Artis quincunx rachis recent plants ridge round the trunk Samuel Sharp sandstone sandstone quarry scales secondary rib simple shale shewn shews simple or forked Specific Character specimen figured Sphenopteris spike Stem arborescent Stem jointed STERNBERGIA striæ Synonyms terminating Thuites tripinnate tubercles upper El-se-car upper extremity usually forming rings Vicar of Wakefield Weddell Sc Wentworth Yorkshire
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Page i - Antediluvian Phytology, illustrated by a Collection of the FOSSIL REMAINS OF PLANTS, peculiar to the Coal Formations of Great Britain...
Page vi - His specimens are first divided into five sections; or perhaps their more proper names would be orders. " 1. DENDROLITHES, containing the remains of trees, which are subdivided into three subsections. " A. Lithoxylites, of which no characters are given, but from the specimens mentioned by him, he evidently arranges in this place the wood-stone and wood-opal of the mineralogists. " B. Lithantracites. In which the Baron places the bitumenized stems, and other parts of trees.
Page vi - Irish elk as a postdiluvian animal than the skeletons which have been found in the alluvial soils that have been formed since that catastrophe, in which they are even discovered very frequently in an upright position ; yet it is easy to conceive that from its bulk and weight, it might have met with frequent accidents, in crossing lakes on the ice, or being mired in soft grounds. And an animal, which at all times was probably scarce, and very conspicuous as an object of the chase, would speedily be...
Page vi - DENDROLITHES, containing the remains of trees, which are subdivided into three subsections. A. Lithoxylites, of which no characters are given, but from the specimens mentioned by him, he evidently arranges in this place the wood-stone and wood-opal of the mineralogists. B. Lithantracites. In which the Baron places the bituminized stems, and other parts of trees. C. Bibliolithes. Fossil leaves, mostly of the latter formations.
Page vii - ... plants which cannot be considered either as trees or shrubs, nor belonging to the plants of the old coal formation. " All the specimens belonging to the preceding sections are merely enumerated, and not distinguished by generic and trivial names, as is the case with the following.
Page vii - Poacites, four. In the whole sixty-two species. 4. CARPOLITHES. Of which Baron Schlotheim enumerates fifteen species as present in his collection. This division is considered as a genus, as is also the next. 5. ANTHOTYPOLITHES. The cabinet contains only one species, namely the Anthotypolithes ranunculiformis.
Page v - Islands, as well as in other parts of Europe, are in all probability of postdiluvian origin, although the living animals of some species of them are no longer to be found — as those of the gigantic Irish elk, and several other species of deer, the horse, ox, boar, wolf, fox and beaver. Of these animals, four are no longer known to exist in the British Islands, namely the Irish elk, the wolf, the boar, and the beaver.
Page v - It will be seen in the course of this Work how easy it would be to imagine even parts of the same specimen to be different species, when they happen to be broken and dispersed. The author may confidently assert, that in at least a thousand different specimens which he has in his possession, he does not apprehend that more than a hundred different species can be recognised. Furthermore...
Page v - ... imagined. The various caverns which have been explored throughout Europe, have shewn that elephants, hippopotami, rhinoceroses, and hyenas, were natives of this part of the world ; and at a period probably not far distant from the time of that desolating current which excavated the values and bore away the forests.