. Geological magazine. ritish Museum, and described by Prof. Owen in the 1863, p. 33, pi. 1. ^ See paper on some Coniferous Remains from the Lithographic Stone ofSolenhofen, by Prof. W. T. Thiseltou Dyer, , , , Gbol. Mag. 1872,Vol. IX. pp. 150, 193, PI. v., etc. Reviews—Heers Primmval World of Switzerland. 83 would understand the Jura Period thoroughly should pay theseclassical quai-ries a visit on his journey to or from Munich, where, inthe National Museum, he will find a magnificent collection of thetype specimens of von Meyers, Schlotheims, Oppels, Zittels, andmany
. Geological magazine. ritish Museum, and described by Prof. Owen in the 1863, p. 33, pi. 1. ^ See paper on some Coniferous Remains from the Lithographic Stone ofSolenhofen, by Prof. W. T. Thiseltou Dyer, , , , Gbol. Mag. 1872,Vol. IX. pp. 150, 193, PI. v., etc. Reviews—Heers Primmval World of Switzerland. 83 would understand the Jura Period thoroughly should pay theseclassical quai-ries a visit on his journey to or from Munich, where, inthe National Museum, he will find a magnificent collection of thetype specimens of von Meyers, Schlotheims, Oppels, Zittels, andmany other celebrated palseontologists figures and descriptions ofLithographic limestone fossils. During the succeeding Cretaceous Period, a great part of Switzer-land was dry land, the sea covering chiefly the low ground from theLake of Constance to the Lake of Geneva; its northern coast rannearly in the direction of Schaffhausen by Aarau and Soleure toBienne, and thence extended further westward, quitting the limits of. Fig. 3. Central Europe during the Cretaceous Period. The white portions representcontinents; and the shaded parts are seas. (Fig. 98, p. 175, Hear.) Switzerland. The sea no doubt covered these districts, wherestrips of marine Cretaceous deposits are frequently met with, whichwere formerly connected together. The southern shore of theSwiss Cretaceous sea is shown generally by a line drawn fromthe Lake of Wallenstadt to Altdorf, the Lake of Brienz and Bex;but there are numerous and deep inlets bringing the sea into theinterior of the Alps, as in the Canton of the Grisons, where theCalanda and jDart of the chain of the Kalfeusen are formed of Creta-ceous rocks. (p. 176.) Passing from the Cretaceous formation to the Tertiary Period, wehave in the Eocene slate-quarries of Matt, in the Canton Claris, themost important Swiss locality for the remains of fossil fishes. Dryland was at no great distance, as evidenced by the fossil remains oftwo species of birds found at Ma
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