It also appeared to be a convenient opportunity of repeating the inquiry, how far the addition of the testaceamight take effect in diminishing the antiseptic qualities of the contrayerva root.
Nothing is more striking in this assemblage of fossil testacea than the great proportion of species referable to the genus Cerithium (see fig.
These microscopic testacea are also accompanied by Cerithia and other shells of the calcaire grossier.
It will be observed that in the foregoing allusions to organic remains, the testacea or the shell-bearing mollusca are selected as the most useful and convenient class for the purposes of general classification.
In several places, as at Woolwich on the Thames, at Newhaven in Sussex, and elsewhere, a mixture of marine and freshwater testacea distinguishes this member of the series.
The utility of the testacea is, moreover, enhanced by the circumstance that some forms are proper to the sea, others to the land, and others to freshwater.
Many Species ofTestacea and Quadrupeds survived the Glacial Cold.
The utility of the testacea is, moreover, enhanced by the circumstance that some forms are proper to the sea, others to the land, and others to fresh water.
In several places, as at Woolwich on the Thames, at Newhaven in Sussex, and elsewhere, a mixture of marine and fresh-water testacea distinguishes this member of the series.
A considerable number of marine and terrestrial Testacea were procured at Rio de Janeiro, not a few of them new and of great interest.
In both, as in the Bathymetrical regions of the South Atlantic, the Testacea of the depths are generally smaller and less brightly coloured than those inhabiting the shallows.
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England, the testacea of our country were nearly the same as those now existing, and the climate cannot be supposed to have been very hot.
Even in the Eocene, or oldest subdivision of these tertiary formations, some few of the testacea belong to existing species, although almost all of them, and apparently all the associated vertebrata, are now extinct.
In his opinion, fossil animals and testacea were, for the most part, of unknown species; and of such as were known, the living analogues now belonged to southern latitudes.
First, there was a salt-water estuary peopled for many years by species of marineTestacea identical with those now living, and into which some of the larger Cetacea occasionally entered.
The habit of some Testacea to adhere to floating wood is proved by their fixing themselves to the bottoms of ships.
That these quadrupeds, and the indigenous species of testacea associated with them, were all contemporary inhabitants of Yorkshire, has been established by unequivocal proof.
He also ascertained, that particular species of testacea were grouped together in certain places, and were becoming slowly incorporated with the mud or calcareous precipitates.
In our own seas, Professor Forbes observes that testacea taken from below 100 fathoms, even when they are individuals of species vividly striped or banded in shallower zones, are quite white or colourless.
Other animals have their organs in a straight line; Cephalopods and Testacea alone show this peculiar doubling up of the body.
In the Eocene, or oldest subdivisions, some few of the testaceabelong to existing species, although almost all of them, and apparently all the associated vertebrata, are now extinct.
So far as they are known, the fossil mollusca and mammalia of the two districts also agree very closely, the Cyrena fluminalis being common to both, and being the only extra-European shell, this and all the species of testacea being Recent.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "testacea" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
