Fossil Cyprinidæ, closely related to existing forms, are found in abundance in fresh-water deposits of the Tertiary, but rarely if ever earlier than the Miocene.
Notogoneus osculus occurs in the Eocene fresh-water deposits at Green River, Wyoming.
The univalve shells most characteristic of fresh-water deposits are, Planorbis, Limnaea, and Paludina.
The more strictly fresh-water deposits of the Eocene period have also yielded numerous remains of Univalves such as are now proper to rivers and lakes, together with the shells of true Land-snails.
Apart from organic contents, the mechanically formed deposits of rivers and lakes resemble in general characters the shallow-water deposits of the ocean, though they are usually less widely distributed.
The sedimentary strata of which mountains are made are for the most part the shallow-water deposits of continental deltas.
Shallow-water deposits of the immense thickness found in mountain ranges can be laid only in a gradually sinking area.
Their bones are found buried in the fresh-water deposits of the time from Colorado to Montana and eastward to the Dakotas.
The most remarkable example of this is found in the gradual changes in the forms of Planorbis in the fresh-water deposits of Steinheim, as shown by the admirable researches of Hyatt.
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