The oldest tertiary or Eocene formation[A] contains only four per cent, of living species, the Miocene contains seventeen per cent.
The period is however characterized by the existence of a large number of pachydermatous animals, of which the tapir, hog, horse and elephant, are examples of living species.
The formation which commenced at the dawn of the recent period, containing but a small number of living species.
Although the marine shells are exclusively of living species, they are not accompanied like those on the coast at Puzzuoli by any traces of man or his works.
In Figure 11 a living species of Spatangus, common on our coast, is represented with one half of its shell stripped of the spines.
In the Greensand of North America, however, occur the remains of Crocodiles which agree with all the living species in having the bodies of the vertebræ in the region of the back hollowed out in front and convex behind.
Lately, however, there has been discovered in the rivers of Queensland (Australia) a living species of Ceratodus (C.
But the contrary is true; of the shells belonging to these several groups, whether freshwater or marine, some are of extinct, others of living species.
Their letters,[92] written with great spirit and elegance, show that they were aware that a large proportion of the Subapennine shells were identical with living species, and some of them with species now living in the torrid zone.
We ourselves, to say nothing of thousands of living species of plants and animals, have participated in some of the very greatest of the geological changes--we know not how many or how great.
In spite of the long popular views of Cuvier, every modern scientist admits that the great lion and hyena of the Pleistocene are identical with the living species of Africa.
The Orthogeomys from San Josecito Cave differs from living species, and has been named Heterogeomys [= Orthogeomys] onerosus Russell (loc.
Considerable fossil material of living species, especially of the genera Geomys and Pappogeomys, was used.
The enamel plate across the posterior wall of P4 is either complete (late Pliocene to late Pleistocene) or restricted to the lingual half of the tooth (always restricted in living species).
In short, if we maintain that Moses describes fossil as well as living species, we find discrepancy, instead of correspondence, between his order of creation and that of geology.
In Europe, they are found to the depth of about six and a half miles; and in this country, deeper; and no living species is found more than one twelfth of this depth.
Some conchologists are now unwilling to allow that any Eocene species of shell has really survived to our times so unaltered as to allow of its specific identification with a living species.
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