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A Pictorial Atlas of Fossil Remains, consisting of coloured illustrations selected from Parkinson's "Organic remains of a former world," and Artis's "Antediluvian phytology."Mantell, Gideon Algernon

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A Pictorial Atlas of Fossil Remains, consisting of coloured illustrations selected from Parkinson's "Organic remains of a former world," and Artis's "Antediluvian phytology."

Name: A Pictorial Atlas of Fossil Remains, consisting of coloured illustrations selected from Parkinson's "Organic remains of a former world," and Artis's "Antediluvian phytology."
Author: Mantell, Gideon Algernon

Mantell, Gideon Algernon

Paleontology

Fig. 5. On this block of mountain limestone there are the remains
         of two different kinds of corals. The upper cylindrical part
         is a fragment of Cyathophyllum, to the lower part of which
         is attached a species of another genus (_Michelinia_).

  Fig. 6, is a small coral (_Fungia numismalis_, of Goldfuss),
         common in the Oolite.

  Fig. 7. A piece of encrinital limestone, from Derbyshire, having
         a conical cast--that is, the stone has been moulded in the
         interior or cavity--of a turbinated coral (_Turbinolia_).

  Fig. 8. A longitudinal section, showing the transverse cells and
         lamellæ of the same kind of coral (_Cyathophyllum_) as figs.
         1, 2, 3.

  Fig. 9. A species of Turbinolia (_Turbinolia complanata_, of
         Goldfuss).

  Fig. 10. A small turbinated coral (_Turbinolia mitrata_, of
         Hesinger), from the Silurian strata of Gothland.

  Fig. 11. A Turbinolia from the Silurian deposits of Sweden.

  Fig. 12. A remarkable coral (_Petraia_, of Munster), from the
         Devonian strata.

  Figs. 13 & 14, are sections of Cyathophylla, like figs. 1, 2, 3,
         to exhibit the internal structure.

  Figs. 15 & 16. Two elegant simple corals (_Caryophyllia
         centralis_, of Mantell), from the chalk of Kent. The form
         and disposition of the lamellæ of the cavity, as seen at the
         upper part of the specimens, are shown at _a_ and _b_.

  Fig. 17. A transverse and polished section of a species of
         Cyathophyllum, from the Devonian strata, at Blackenberg on
         the Rhine.

[Illustration: Plate XXXVII.]


PLATE XXXVII.

Various Fossil Compound Corals.

  Fig. 1. A beautiful specimen of Star-coral (_Astrea ananas_, of
         Goldfuss), from the Silurian strata of Sweden. At _a_, is
         shown "the mode in which, as in proliferous flowers, new
         polypes bud from the centre of the parent disk. At _b_, is
         represented the growth in the recent _Madrepora stellaris_
         of Linnæus."--_Mr. Parkinson._

  Fig. 2. An elegant Cyathophyllum (_C. dianthus_, of Goldfuss),
         from the Silurian formation of Sweden. At _c_, (the lower
         part of the plate,) is shown its probable mode of increase.

  Figs. 3 & 6. A columnar compound coral (_Lithostrotion striatum_,
         of Lhwyd), from the mountain limestone of Derbyshire;
         fig. 3, is a transverse section of fig. 6, showing the
         basaltiform arrangement of the columns.

  Fig. 4. "A fossil madrepore, from Lincolnshire."--_Mr. Parkinson._

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A Pictorial Atlas of Fossil Remains, consisting of coloured illustrations selected from Parkinson's "Organic remains of a former world," and Artis's "Antediluvian phytology."

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