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." . I i. FOSSIL FAUNA. 109 PLATE XLV. Fossil Corals and other Zoophytes. Fig. 1. A fossil body, from near Bath, the surface of which is covered by stelliform markings,which seem to have been formed by a coralloid.—Parkinson. This fossil is supposedby Mr. Morris to be the cast of one of those mollusca which form and inhabit hollowsin stone, coral, &c. (hence termed Lithodomi). In the present instance, the molluskhad bored in
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." . I i. FOSSIL FAUNA. 109 PLATE XLV. Fossil Corals and other Zoophytes. Fig. 1. A fossil body, from near Bath, the surface of which is covered by stelliform markings,which seem to have been formed by a coralloid.—Parkinson. This fossil is supposedby Mr. Morris to be the cast of one of those mollusca which form and inhabit hollowsin stone, coral, &c. (hence termed Lithodomi). In the present instance, the molluskhad bored into a mass of coral, the imprints of the stellular polype-cells of whichremain on the surface of the cast. It closely resembles fig. 3, Plate XXXVI. ofFaujas St. Fond, Hist. Mont. St. Pierre, which is described as a coral; it is theAstrea geometrica, of Goldfuss. Fig. 2. A fossil coral from Maestricht. At b, is shown an enlarged view of one of the stars. Fig. 3. A siliceous fossil from Essex.—Mr. Parkinson. (Ventriculites racemostis, of Smith.) I must confess myself unable to determine the nature of thisspecimen. Figs. 4, & 6. Corals from the cretaceous
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