A pictorial atlas of fossil remains, consisting of coloured illustrations selected from Parkinson's "Organic remains of a former world," and Artis's "Antediluvian phytology." . FOSSIL FAUNA. 89 PLATE XXXV. The subjects here figured are Fossil Corals. Fig. 1. {Syringopora ramulosa.^ A fragment of another species of the coral previously described;from the mountain limestone. Fig. 2, represents four connected tubes of the recent organ-pipe coral {Bardnula muska) ofNew Holland, to show the structure of this type of Zoophytes. Coloured figures ofthe live polypes of this coral are given in Wonders o
A pictorial atlas of fossil remains, consisting of coloured illustrations selected from Parkinson's "Organic remains of a former world," and Artis's "Antediluvian phytology." . FOSSIL FAUNA. 89 PLATE XXXV. The subjects here figured are Fossil Corals. Fig. 1. {Syringopora ramulosa.^ A fragment of another species of the coral previously described;from the mountain limestone. Fig. 2, represents four connected tubes of the recent organ-pipe coral {Bardnula muska) ofNew Holland, to show the structure of this type of Zoophytes. Coloured figures ofthe live polypes of this coral are given in Wonders of Geology, sixth edition, vol. vi. Fig. 3. A polished slab of marble, the white markings in which are produced by sections of thetubes of the same species of coral as that represented in fig. 1. Fig. 4. {Catenipora eschciroides.) The fossil here delineated is well known to collectors by thename of chain-coral derived from the elegant cateniform markings produced bytransverse sections of the parallel tubes, which being of an oval form, and in closeapposition, give rise to chain-like figures, as shown in figs. 5 and 6. From Dudley. This fossil coral abounds in th
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