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... fossil bones under consideration . During the last five years I have lost no opportunity of submitting these fossils to skilful comparative anatomists , and with the same result . My exhibition of several of them to some of the most ...
... fossil bones under consideration . During the last five years I have lost no opportunity of submitting these fossils to skilful comparative anatomists , and with the same result . My exhibition of several of them to some of the most ...
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... fossil bones from the same clay ; and the lower maxillary of the Chimera presented the form of the fossil inferior ... fossils to Professor Agassiz , he at once admitted them to belong to the genus Chimæra , a genus of which the living ...
... fossil bones from the same clay ; and the lower maxillary of the Chimera presented the form of the fossil inferior ... fossils to Professor Agassiz , he at once admitted them to belong to the genus Chimæra , a genus of which the living ...
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... fossil Testudinata . The genus Chimera is one of the most remarkable among living fishes , as a link in the family of Chondroptérygiens . The fact of the existence of many fossil species of this curious genus ( and some of these much ...
... fossil Testudinata . The genus Chimera is one of the most remarkable among living fishes , as a link in the family of Chondroptérygiens . The fact of the existence of many fossil species of this curious genus ( and some of these much ...
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A paper was next read , “ On the recent discovery of Fossil Fishes ( Palæoniscus catopterus , Agassiz , ) in the new red sandstone of Tyrone , Ireland ; " by Roderick Impey Murchison , Esq . , V.P.G.S. A small specimen of new red ...
A paper was next read , “ On the recent discovery of Fossil Fishes ( Palæoniscus catopterus , Agassiz , ) in the new red sandstone of Tyrone , Ireland ; " by Roderick Impey Murchison , Esq . , V.P.G.S. A small specimen of new red ...
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... fossil fishes , and even much richer than their equivalents on the Continent . The num- ber of English species is fifty . In the London clay the species perfectly determined are about fifty , but it is certain , from the fragments ...
... fossil fishes , and even much richer than their equivalents on the Continent . The num- ber of English species is fifty . In the London clay the species perfectly determined are about fifty , but it is certain , from the fragments ...
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