Elements of geology, or, The Elements of geology, or, The ancient changes of the earth and its inhabitants as illustrated by geological monuments elementsofgeolog00lyel Year: 1868 4:10 FOSSIL PLANTS OF GREAT OOLITE. [Oh. XX. logical science can prove to the contrary, it may have been unguicu- late, insectivorous, and marsupial! * Professor Owen has remarked that, as the marsupial genera, to which the Phascolotkerium is most nearly allied, are now confined to New South Wales and Yan Dieman's Land, so also is it in the Australian seas that we find the Cestracion, a cartilaginous fish which has
Elements of geology, or, The Elements of geology, or, The ancient changes of the earth and its inhabitants as illustrated by geological monuments elementsofgeolog00lyel Year: 1868 4:10 FOSSIL PLANTS OF GREAT OOLITE. [Oh. XX. logical science can prove to the contrary, it may have been unguicu- late, insectivorous, and marsupial! * Professor Owen has remarked that, as the marsupial genera, to which the Phascolotkerium is most nearly allied, are now confined to New South Wales and Yan Dieman's Land, so also is it in the Australian seas that we find the Cestracion, a cartilaginous fish which has a bony palate, allied to those called Acrodus (see fig. 453, p. 421) and Strophodu'Sj so common in the Oolite and Lias. In the same Australian seas, also, near the shore, we find the living Trigonia, a genus of mollusca so frequently met with in the Stonesfield slate. So, also, the Araucarian pines are now abundant, together with ferns, in Australia and its islands, as they were in Europe in the Oolitic period (see fig. 421). Endogens of the most perfect structure are met with in oolitic, rocks, as, for example, the Podocarya of Buckland, a fruit allied to the Pandanus, found in the Inferior Oolite (see fig;. 420). • Tic;. 420.
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