Fortunately this bed is so well exposed and so abundant in trees, that I have myself, within a few years, removed from it about twenty of them, the greater number affording remains of land animals.
On the other hand, the recent discovery of a cockroach and two species of Scorpion in the Silurian, proves the existence of land animals as well as plants at this period.
Section of base of erect Sigillaria, containing remains of land animals 161 Frontispiece.
Were there no land animals to prowl along the low tidal flats in search of food?
Secondly, this seems to be more applicable in the case of land animals then in the case of those of the waters.
The bones of land animals are, for the most part, left unburied on the surface and are soon destroyed by chemical agencies.
Beds of impure peat occur in it, and it contains fresh-water shells and the bones of land animals of species now living in northern India.
But we meet with no bones of land animals, nor any terrestrial or fluviatile shells, nor any plants, except sea weeds, and here and there a piece of drift wood.
The discovery of the remains of Paleotherium and other mammalia in some of the upper beds of the calcaire grossier shows that these land animals began to exist before the deposition of the overlying gypseous series had commenced.
As yet there were no land animals or plants, and for this the presumable reason is, that no dry land as yet existed.
The atmosphere would then, of course, be incapable of supporting life in land animals.
The next volume of the rock series refers to an era distinguished by an event of no less importance than the commencement of land animals.
As to land animals, the legislator will discourage hunting by night, and also the use of nets and snares by day; for these are indolent and unmanly methods.
Secondly, at the close of the palanthropic age we find a great change in land animals--a number of important species hunted by early man having disappeared, and the more meagre modern fauna having come in at once.
It surely follows from this that the movements of land animals must be rapid and precise, unless, indeed, safety is secured in some other way.
Here we met with a small tribe of Indians who came off to sell a little fish, Bows & Arrows, and some few skins of Land Animals.
They were evidently a tribe that visited the Sea Coast but seldom, as they were generally clad in skins of Land animals, and during our stay here, they brought but one Sea Otter skin to sell.
This line, recognized as very important in the distribution of land animals, coincides in general with the ocean current between Celebes and Papua, which is one of the sources of the Kuro Shiwo.
The pupil is round, and if we could cut open the eye we should see that the crystalline lens is almost a perfect sphere, much more convex than the lens in land animals.
This line, separating Borneo from Celebes and Bali from Lompoe, marks in the Pacific the western limit of Cyprinoid fishes, as well as that of monkeys and other important groups of land animals.
It must be further borne in mind that as yet no land animals or plants existed, and for this presumable reason, that dry land had not appeared.
The advance in land animals is less marked, but considerable in the tertiary strata.
There may have been climates and regions adapted to the existence of the higher class of land animals, while contemporarily therewith other portions of the globe might be undergoing changes beneath the ocean.
For they are both hunters, and hunters of animals; the one of water, and the other of land animals.
Fossil remains of land Animals found in it, above Marine Shells.
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