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... Reptiles 65 • Era of the Trias and Oolite - Reptiles Abundant - First Traces of Birds and Mammalia . 69 Trias . 70 Oolite 77 Cretaceous Era 90 Era of the Tertiary Formation . - Mammalia Abundant . 95 Era of the Superficial Formations ...
... Reptiles 65 • Era of the Trias and Oolite - Reptiles Abundant - First Traces of Birds and Mammalia . 69 Trias . 70 Oolite 77 Cretaceous Era 90 Era of the Tertiary Formation . - Mammalia Abundant . 95 Era of the Superficial Formations ...
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... Reptiles , Birds , Mammalia . In a general enumeration of the organisms of the Lower Silurians , we may first notice the examples of an order which is FIG . 4 . placed in the lowest subdivision of the animal kingdom - Polypiaria - the ...
... Reptiles , Birds , Mammalia . In a general enumeration of the organisms of the Lower Silurians , we may first notice the examples of an order which is FIG . 4 . placed in the lowest subdivision of the animal kingdom - Polypiaria - the ...
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... reptiles , but have since been ascertained to be remains of fishes , leading to the conjecture that the animals to which they appertained could not be less than thirty - six feet long . ' M. Agassiz has announced nine genera of sharks ...
... reptiles , but have since been ascertained to be remains of fishes , leading to the conjecture that the animals to which they appertained could not be less than thirty - six feet long . ' M. Agassiz has announced nine genera of sharks ...
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... reptiles . One of the most noted species is the Megalichthys Hibbertii , discovered by Dr. Hibbert Ware , in a limestone bed at Burdiehouse , near Edinburgh , and of which other spe- cimens have been found in the coal measures of ...
... reptiles . One of the most noted species is the Megalichthys Hibbertii , discovered by Dr. Hibbert Ware , in a limestone bed at Burdiehouse , near Edinburgh , and of which other spe- cimens have been found in the coal measures of ...
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... reptiles have been discovered in the coal formation in Bavaria . They are referred to a variety of Saurian species to which the general name of Archegeosaurus has been given , and which M. Von Meyer considers as having been allied to ...
... reptiles have been discovered in the coal formation in Bavaria . They are referred to a variety of Saurian species to which the general name of Archegeosaurus has been given , and which M. Von Meyer considers as having been allied to ...
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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...