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." . one from the Oolite, Bradford, Wilts. Fig. 7. A detached specimen from the same, showing the enclosed bivalve. Figs. 8, & 10. Fine but imperfect specimens of a species of Teredo (Teredhm personata, ofLamarck), from the Plastic clay of Epernay, France. Fig. 9. A snail-shell {Helix arbusforim) found associated, and evidently contemporaneous,with bones of Mammoth, and extinct species of Deer, and other mammalia. FromBrentf
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." . one from the Oolite, Bradford, Wilts. Fig. 7. A detached specimen from the same, showing the enclosed bivalve. Figs. 8, & 10. Fine but imperfect specimens of a species of Teredo (Teredhm personata, ofLamarck), from the Plastic clay of Epernay, France. Fig. 9. A snail-shell {Helix arbusforim) found associated, and evidently contemporaneous,with bones of Mammoth, and extinct species of Deer, and other mammalia. FromBrentford, in a bed of light calcareous earth, twenty feet below the surface. Fig. 11. -A concamerated FarUnson. I am unable to ascertain the natureof this fossil. Fig. 12. A species of Fistulana, from France. Fig. 13. External surface of Chama squamosa of Brander. London clay, HordweD. Figs. 14, & 15, are the anchylosed caudal vertebra of the tails of fishes. From the London clay,Isle of Sheppey. Fig. 16. A small oyster with a spathose structure.—J/r. Parkinson. This shell is probablythe flat valve of a species of Dianchora, of Sowerby; from the K)SSIL FAUNA. 151 PLATE Bivalve Shells. Fig. 1. A fossil Oyster {Ostrea Marshii, of Sowerby), from the Cornbrash of the Oolite,Wiltshire. Fig. 2. The fossil Cockscomb Oyster, (Ostrea carinata, of Lamarck,) from the Lower chalk,Havre, France. Fig. 3. The elegant fossil shell here figured is a peculiar and most abundant species in the Liasformation; specimens are not uncommon, in which every part of the shell is asperfect as if just thrown up on the seashore. It belongs to the genus Gryphites{Gryphea iucurva, of Sowerby,) the shells of which are nearly related to the oysters, butare distinguished by the deep concave under-valve, and its curved beak, and thealmost flat upper shell. The testaceous substance is of a finer laminated structurethan in the Ostrea, and the hinge-ligament is inserted in an elongated c
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