The Medals of Creation, Volumes 1 and 2: First Lessons in Geology and the Study of Organic RemainsMantell, Gideon Algernon
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The Medals of Creation, Volumes 1 and 2: First Lessons in Geology and the Study of Organic Remains
Mantell, Gideon Algernon
Geology -- England -- Guidebooks; Paleontology
Runswick, Yorkshire Coast { _Lower } Cycads, Ferns, &c.
{ Oolite_ }
Saltwick, near Whitby { _Lower } Foliage of Cycads, Ferns, &c.
{ Oolite_ }
Sandown Bay, Isle of Wight _Wealden_ Conifers, Cycads, wood.
Scarborough _Oolite_ Ferns, Cycads, Equiseta, &c.
Selmeston, Sussex { _Greensand_ } Coniferous wood.
Sheppey, Isle of { _London { Fruits innumerable, wood,
{ Clay_ { &c. (_ante_, p. 186.)
Stonesfield, Oxfordshire _Oolite_ Fuci, Cycads, Thuites, &c.
Swindon, Wilts _Oolite_ Coniferous wood, & Cycads.
Tunbridge Wells (vicinity) _Wealden_ Ferns, several species.
Ventnor, Isle of Wight _Firestone_ Clathraria, Conifers.
Wareham, Dorset _Tert._ { Dicotyledonous foliage, and
{ Palm-leaves.
Whitecliff Bay, I. of Wight _Tert._ Palm-leaves, Charæ, &c.
Whitwick, Leicestershire _Carb._ The usual coal-plants.
The above list must, of course, be considered as merely suggestive:
many other localities are mentioned in the previous notices of the
fossil genera.
PART III.
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FOSSIL ZOOLOGY.
"The very ground on which we tread, and the mountains that surround
us, are vast tumuli in which the Organic Remains of a Former World are
enshrined."--Parkinson.
The existing species of animals scientifically determined by
naturalists amount to upwards of one hundred thousand, while those
known in a fossil state scarcely exceed twenty-five thousand; yet the
latter comprise examples of all the classes, and most of the families
and genera, which still inhabit our planet. Although our notice of
these remains must necessarily be very general, we shall endeavour to
describe all that are of peculiar interest, either in a geological
or zoological point of view; or which from their prevalence, or wide
distribution, will frequently be met with by the collector in the
course of his researches.
Our examination will commence with animal organisms of the simplest
structure, and proceed in an ascending order, in accordance with the
usual zoological classifications; but, as in the botanical department,
it will be convenient occasionally to include the consideration of
the fossil remains of more than one family in the same section, when
associated in a particular locality or deposit.
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