But the remarkable fossils for which the Stonesfield slate is most celebrated are those referred to the mammiferous class.
The second mammiferous genus discovered in the same slates was named originally by Mr. Broderip Didelphys Bucklandi (see Figure 346), and has since been called Phascolotherium by Owen.
The mammae (for it must be remembered that this creature is a mammiferous animal) are placed just below and behind the flippers.
In standard works on natural history the animals under consideration are classed asmammiferous Didelphæ.
It was, in short, a mammiferous animal, which appears to have been enclosed in a shell like that of a Turtle; it resembled in many respects the Dasypus or Anteater, and had sixteen teeth in each jaw.
On examining the appearance of the ovum in mammiferous animals, and especially the human ovum, it will be found that it presents a form and structure very analogous to the ova just described, more especially those of birds.
The mammiferous tribe, or those that suckle their young, seem in this respect to occupy an intermediate place between birds and cold-blooded animals, such as reptiles and fishes.
No; that is not supposed to be the case: for the human species, who are of the mammiferous tribe, live on more substantial food than birds, and yet the latter exceed them in muscular strength.
Localities in Pampas at whichmammiferous remains have been found.
In the succeeding chapter I shall have to refer to a great deposit of extinct mammiferous remains, lately discovered by Captain Sulivan, R.
Only on this view of the Pampean formation having been of estuary origin, can the extraordinary numbers (presently to be alluded to) of the embeddedmammiferous remains be explained.
We here see that the Pampean deposit contains mammiferous remains close to its base.
In the section on the Parana, I did not find any mammiferous remains; but at two miles distance on the A.
Julian, the mammiferous quadrupeds which co-existed with these shells belong to extinct species.
There are, also, extensive LOW tracts of country covered with a deposit containing mammiferous remains, precisely like that just described in the more eastern parts of the province.
A Description of the Mammiferous Animals Inhabiting N.
Its flesh, when salted and dried in the sun, can be preserved a whole year; and, as the clergy regard this mammiferous animal as a fish, it is much sought during Lent.
The milk of the cow-tree contains, on the contrary, a caseous matter, like the milk of mammiferous animals.
It remained perfectly indifferent when it was shown engravings of skeletons or heads of mammiferous animals.
But the remarkable fossils for which the Stonesfield slate is most celebrated, are those referred to the mammiferous class.
The secondmammiferous genus discovered in the same slates was named originally by Mr. Broderip Didelphys Bucklandi (see fig.
Meyer as belonging to a mammiferous fauna quite distinct from that of the Mayence basin, and they are probably referable to the Miocene period.
The mammiferous fossils, first met with in the same bed, were those of an opossum (Didelphys) (see fig.
Much light has been thrown on the mammiferous fauna by the labours of MM.
In regard to mammiferous remains, a single glance at the historical table published in the Supplement to Lyell's Manual, will bring home the truth, how accidental and rare is their preservation, far better than pages of detail.
But no complete skeleton has as yet been discovered, even among the smaller species of mammiferous animals, the disjunction of which is generally less complete.
Professor Ruetimeyer is of opinion that the whole of these bones may be referred to about seventy species of animals--ten of which are fish, three reptiles, twenty birds, and the rest mammiferous animals.
This actually occurs with respect to one of the preceding examples, “Man is a mammiferous animal having two hands,” which is the scientific definition of man considered as one of the species in Cuvier’s distribution of the animal kingdom.
The species has popularly been accused of destroying, not only the large mammiferous animals, but also men, when asleep, by sucking their blood.
We begin to find the bones of the mammiferous sea animals, namely, of the lamantin and of seals, in the course of shell limestone which immediately covers the chalk strata in the neighbourhood of Paris.
Why should not one island (it can be shown, I think, that the mammifers of Mauritius and St Iago have all been introduced) in the open ocean possess a mammiferous quadruped?
Why should the great island of New Zealand be without one mammiferous quadruped except the mouse, and that was probably introduced with the aborigines?
On the fifth day, the inhabitants of the waters, then flying things, then great reptiles, and then mammiferous animals, were created.
Unfortunately, no mammiferous animals or reptiles, or fresh or salt water shell-fish are found on these coasts; and one or two different kinds of birds with a few lichens and mosses were all the naturalist was able to obtain.
Most of the mammiferous animals walk on four feet, which, at the extremities, are usually divided into toes or fingers.
If we could develop the different parts of the brain of the inferior classes, we should make, in succession, a reptile out of a fish, a bird out of a reptile, and a mammiferous quadruped out of a bird.
Yet even these have sometimes proved entirely destitute of mammiferousrelics for years after they had become celebrated for the abundance of their fossil testacea, fish, and reptiles.
The order of mammiferous animals to which apes belong.
In the mammiferous class our influence is chiefly displayed in increasing the number of quadrupeds which are serviceable to us, and in exterminating or reducing the number of those which are noxious.
An order of vertebrated mammiferous animals inhabiting the sea.
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