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... Fishes Abundant . 28 • 31 42 43 Carbonigenous Era - Land Plants and Animals 51 Permian Era . - Reptiles 65 • Era of the Trias and Oolite - Reptiles Abundant - First Traces of Birds and Mammalia . 69 Trias . 70 Oolite 77 Cretaceous Era ...
... Fishes Abundant . 28 • 31 42 43 Carbonigenous Era - Land Plants and Animals 51 Permian Era . - Reptiles 65 • Era of the Trias and Oolite - Reptiles Abundant - First Traces of Birds and Mammalia . 69 Trias . 70 Oolite 77 Cretaceous Era ...
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... Fishes were low , both with respect to their class as Fishes , and the Order to which they belong ( Cartilagines ) ix 8. In all the Orders of Ancient Animals , there is an ascending gradation of character from first to last . xii 9 ...
... Fishes were low , both with respect to their class as Fishes , and the Order to which they belong ( Cartilagines ) ix 8. In all the Orders of Ancient Animals , there is an ascending gradation of character from first to last . xii 9 ...
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... fish . Even of the classes below fish ( Invertebrates ) , it presents generally only examples of humble families . As we grope downward among these early and obscure fields of creation , we find from time to time a few fossils lower ...
... fish . Even of the classes below fish ( Invertebrates ) , it presents generally only examples of humble families . As we grope downward among these early and obscure fields of creation , we find from time to time a few fossils lower ...
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... fish are examples . To all these , the Vertebrata are as a beautiful superstructure upon a rustic basement , in the four great classes of ascending rank - Fishes , Reptiles , Birds , Mammalia . In a general enumeration of the organisms ...
... fish are examples . To all these , the Vertebrata are as a beautiful superstructure upon a rustic basement , in the four great classes of ascending rank - Fishes , Reptiles , Birds , Mammalia . In a general enumeration of the organisms ...
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... fish , fixed on the top of a flexible stalk arising from the sea - bottom . Numberless calcareous plates enter into the com- position of the stalk , body , and multitudinous ten- tacula or arms of the crinoid , forming altogether a ...
... fish , fixed on the top of a flexible stalk arising from the sea - bottom . Numberless calcareous plates enter into the com- position of the stalk , body , and multitudinous ten- tacula or arms of the crinoid , forming altogether a ...
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Page lx - Thus, the production of new forms, as shewn in the pages of the geological record, has never been anything more than a new stage of progress in gestation, an event as simply natural, and attended as little by any circumstances of a wonderful or startling kind, as the silent advance of an ordinary mother from one week to another of her pregnancy.
Page 329 - A law presupposes an agent, for it is only the mode according to which an agent proceeds: it implies a power, for it is the order according to which that power acts. Without this agent, without this power, which are both distinct from itself, the law does nothing, is nothing. The expression, "the law of metallic nature...