The Old Red Sandstone, Or, New Walks in an Old FieldGould and Lincoln, 59 Washington Street, 1851 - 2 páginas |
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... Coccosteus , the reader will find it stated that the creature , unlike its contem- porary the Pterichthys , was unfurnished with arms . Ere arriving at such a conclusion , I had carefully examined at least a hundred different Coccostei ...
... Coccosteus , the reader will find it stated that the creature , unlike its contem- porary the Pterichthys , was unfurnished with arms . Ere arriving at such a conclusion , I had carefully examined at least a hundred different Coccostei ...
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... Coccosteus of the Lower Old Red . - Description . · Gradations from Crustacea to Fishes . Habits of the Coccosteus . Scarcely - - - - any Conception too extravagant for Nature to realize , 35-54 - CHAPTER IV . ―― - The Elfin - fish Xiv ...
... Coccosteus of the Lower Old Red . - Description . · Gradations from Crustacea to Fishes . Habits of the Coccosteus . Scarcely - - - - any Conception too extravagant for Nature to realize , 35-54 - CHAPTER IV . ―― - The Elfin - fish Xiv ...
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... Coccosteus cuspidatus . Fig . 2 , Impression of inner surface of large dorsal plate . Fig . 3 , Abdominal lozenge - shaped plate . Fig . 4 , Portion of jaw , with teeth . PLATE IV . - Fig . 1 , Restoration of Osteolepis major . Fig . 2 ...
... Coccosteus cuspidatus . Fig . 2 , Impression of inner surface of large dorsal plate . Fig . 3 , Abdominal lozenge - shaped plate . Fig . 4 , Portion of jaw , with teeth . PLATE IV . - Fig . 1 , Restoration of Osteolepis major . Fig . 2 ...
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... Coccosteus , or berry - on - bone . And such has been his principle of nomenclature . The name is a condensed description . But though all his names mean something , they cannot mean a great deal ; and as learned words repel unlearned ...
... Coccosteus , or berry - on - bone . And such has been his principle of nomenclature . The name is a condensed description . But though all his names mean something , they cannot mean a great deal ; and as learned words repel unlearned ...
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... Coccosteus of the Lower Old Red . Description . — Gradations from Crustacea to Fishes . - Habits of the Coccosteus . — Scarcely any Conception too extravagant for Nature to realize . - - MR . LYELL's brilliant and popular work , The ...
... Coccosteus of the Lower Old Red . Description . — Gradations from Crustacea to Fishes . - Habits of the Coccosteus . — Scarcely any Conception too extravagant for Nature to realize . - - MR . LYELL's brilliant and popular work , The ...
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abundance acquainted Agassiz ancient animal appearance Balruddery beautiful body bone bony Caithness cartilaginous fishes Cephalaspis character Cheiracanthus Cheirolepis Christian Coal Measures coast Coccosteus color composed conglomerate Cornstone covered creature Cromarty crustacean deposit described diluvium Dipterus edge edition enamelled entire exhibited existing feet fins Forfarshire fossils fragments furnished geological geologist gneiss granitic hills Holoptychius huge hundred ichthyolite beds illustration inches interest jaws Lias limestone lower formation Lower Old Red marked mass minute Moray Moray Frith Murchison nodules occur Old Red Sand Old Red Sandstone Oolite organisms osseous Osteolepis peculiar period plates portion present Pterichthys quarry rays reader regarded remains resembling ridge rock scales schists Scotland seems shells shore side Silurian skeleton species specimens spines stone strata stratified clay stratum style surface Sutor tail teeth thick thickly thousand tion trilobite tubercles vegetable vertebral vertebral column volume