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Ananchytes from the chalk with lower valve of Crania attached. b. Now the series of events here attested by a single fossil may be carried a step farther. In this case, we see clearly that the sea-urchin first lived from youth to age, then died and lost its spines, which were carried away.
In the North American continent, on the other hand, where the Upper Cretaceous formations are so widely developed, true white chalk, in the ordinary sense of that term, does not exist. Ananchytes ovatus, Leske. White chalk, upper and lower. a. Side view. b. Micraster cor-angumum, Leske. Galerites albogalerus, Lam. Marsupites Milleri. Mant.
Then the young Crania adhered to the bared shell, grew and perished in its turn; after which the upper valve was separated from the lower before the Ananchytes became enveloped in chalky mud. Fossil and recent wood drilled by perforating Mollusca. Fossil wood from London Clay, bored by Teredina. b. Recent wood bored by Toredo. d. Shell and tube of Teredo navalis, from the same. c.
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