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The Chain of Life in Geological Time: A Sketch of the Origin and Succession of Animals and PlantsDawson, John William, Sir

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The Chain of Life in Geological Time: A Sketch of the Origin and Succession of Animals and Plants

Name: The Chain of Life in Geological Time: A Sketch of the Origin and Succession of Animals and Plants
Author: Dawson, John William, Sir

Dawson, John William, Sir

Paleobotany; Paleontology

Brachiopods; genus _Orthis_                                    66

_Rhynchonella increbrescens_ (Hall)                            66

_Spirifer mucronatus_ (Conrad)                                 67

  59_a_. _Athyris subtilita_ (Hall)                                  67

_Productus cora_ (D’Orbigny)                                   68

Group of Older Palæozoic Lamellibranchs                        69

_Conularia planicostata_ (Dn.). A Carboniferous Pteropod       70

Silurian Sea-snails                                            70

Squid (_Loligo_)                                               72

Pearly Nautilus (_Nautilus pompilius_)                         72

_Orthoceras_                                                   73

_Gomphoceras_                                                  73

_Lituites_                                                     73

_Nautilus Avonensis_ (Dn.)                                     74

_Goniatites crenistria_ (Philips)                              74

_Ceratites nodosus_ (Schloth)                                  75

_Ammonites Jason_ (Reinecke)                                   76

  72_a_. Suture of _Ammonites componens_ (Meek)                      76

Cretaceous Ammonitidæ                                          77

_Belemnite_                                                    78

  74_a_. _Belemnoteuthis antiquus_                                   78

Cambrian Trilobites                                            79

Transverse section of _Calymene_. A Silurian Trilobite         80

  76_a_. Burrows of Trilobite and of modern King-crab                81

Silurian Trilobites                                            82

Devonian and Carboniferous Trilobites                          83

Palæozoic Ostracod Crustaceans                                 83

_Pterygotus anglicus_                                          84

_Amphipeltis paradoxus_ (Salter)                               85

_Anthropalæmon Hilliana_ (Dn.)                                 85

  _Frontispiece._ _Cordaites_, of the group of _Dory-Cordaites_      88

_Protannularia Harknessii_ (Nicholson)                         91

American Lower Silurian Plants                                 92

Fragment of outer surface of _Glyptodendron_ of Claypole       93

_Psilophyton princeps_ (Dn.)                                   95

Trunk of a Devonian Tree-fern (_Caulopteris Lockwoodi_, Dn.)   97

Frond of _Archæopteris Jacksoni_ (Dn.)                         98

Portion of a branch of _Leptophleum rhombicum_ (Dn.)           98

_Calamites radiatus_ (Brongniart)                              99

A Devonian Taxine Conifer (_Dadoxylon ouangondianum_, Dn.)    100

Group of Devonian fruits, &c.                                 101

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The Chain of Life in Geological Time: A Sketch of the Origin and Succession of Animals and Plants

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