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This diagram shows the quadripartite arrangement of the primary septa, characteristic of palaeozoic corals, there being four principal and eight intermediate lamellae, the whole number in this type being always a multiple of four. c. Stauria astraeiformis, Milne Edwards. Young group, natural size. Upper Silurian, Gothland. Neozoic type of lamelliferous cup-shaped Coral.
If we cast a glance back on the long vista of physical changes which our planet has undergone since the Neozoic epoch, we can nowhere detect signs of a revolution more sudden and pronounced, or more important in its results, than the intercalation and sudden disappearance of the glacial period.
Duncan has shown to what extent the Neozoic forms penetrate downward into the Carboniferous and Devonian rocks. Lithostrotion basaltiforme, Phil. sp. England, Ireland, Russia, Iowa, and westward of the Mississippi, United States. Lonsdaleia floriformis, Martin, sp., M. Edwards. Young specimen, with buds or corallites on the disk, illustrating calicular gemmation. b.
By this means the German, French, and English geologists have determined the succession of strata throughout a great part of Europe, and have adopted pretty generally the following groups, almost all of which have their representatives in the British Islands. GREAT or BATH OOLITE. JURASSIC. SECONDARY OR MESOZOIC. NEOZOIC. RECENT. Shells and mammalia, all of living species.
"The Neozoic flora," he read, "consists mainly of of Angio Angiosper " Still smiling, but distinctly wan around the edges of the smile, he slammed the handful of papers down on his knee. "If it really doesn't make any difference where we begin, Miss Eve," he said, "for Heaven's sake let's begin somewhere else!" "Oh all right," crooned little Eve Edgarton.
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