Such is a short notice of this most extensive subject, to which the writer’s attention has been attracted by the concurrence of [p370] historical relations with the locality of fossil remains.
C] Palaeontology is the science which treats of fossil remains, both animal and vegetable.
In Ireland the "drift" exhibits the same general characters and fossil remains as in Scotland and England; but in the southern part of that island, Prof.
Mantell was much embarrassed to account for its presence in the ancient Wealden strata, in which, according to all previous experience, no fossil remains of mammals would be likely to occur.
This rock, known as "Stonesfield slate" from its property of splitting up into thin layers, has long been celebrated for its fossil remains, and from it have also been obtained the bones of some early mammals.
A fish, belonging to Acanthodii, known only by fossil remains in Old Red Sandstone.
Fossil remains of Ammonites, many species of which are found in Devonian and Carboniferous Limestone.
A tapir-like mammal, having canine teeth, known only by fossil remains found in Tertiary rocks.
Cuvier and De Blainville have also carefully described the fossil remains of this animal.
At Aldeby, where beds occur decidedly similar in mineral character as well as fossil remains, Messrs.
Fossil remains of the elephant, and other extinct quadrupeds, have been found in these Post-Pliocene strata, associated with recent shells.
I have had occasion to work out the nature of fossil remains, of which there was nothing left except casts of the bones, the solid material of the skeleton having been dissolved out by percolating water.
First, we find many able naturalists adducing the fossil remainsof marine animals as proofs of an event related in Scripture.
This class, therefore, is not crystalline in its structure, and is nearly horizontal in position and contains greater quantities of fossil remains, both of animals and vegetables.
In some cases it is much greater; and there are entire orders of animals of the existence of which we should know nothing except for the evidence afforded by fossil remains.
But as fossil remains of spiders and insects have been found, even in the carboniferous beds, we can pretty accurately determine the time of their origin.
The intermediate forms between the old and the newly-forming species must also have lived during the periods of elevation, and consequently could likewise leave no fossil remains.
Fossil remains of musk-oxen have been unearthed in Siberia, Alaska, Grinnell Land, and Northern Europe.
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