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The Common Fossils of the British Rocks

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 March 2016

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As One carried beyond his depth for the first time into the waters of ocean, and struggling shorewards, touches but now and then the yellow sands, with every heaving wave again to be set afloat, feels a delight when he plants his foot solidly on the sands, and wades through shallower water to the shore, so do we after our almost footless path through the wide waste of water of the first age, hail with delight our firmer footing on the spreading shores of this next great geological period.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1859

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page 425 note * “Paradoxides Forchhammeri (Augolin) n. sp., P. fronte sulcis 4; anteriaribus 2 medio obliteratis; abdomine spathulato, mutico. Loc. Nat.—.In stratis calcareis regionis (B.), Scaniæ ad Andrarum.”—Palæontologia Suecica, pars, i., fase, i., 1852.”

page 426 note * Olenus (Peltura) scarabæoides, Wahl, nat size. Augelin, p. 45.

“Loc. Nat.—In stratis regionis A, Vestrogothiæ ex. gr. ad Kaflas, Klefra, Carlsfors; Nericiæ ad Latorp; Œlandiæ ad Alguterum; Scaniæ ad Andrarum. In Norvegia ad Opslo.

Corpus angustum, ovato-oblongum distincte longitudinaliter trilobum; crusta lævis vel aciculata.

Caput breve, subreniforme, valde convexum, undique marginatum sulcoque intramarginali præditum; auguli exteriores rotundati, mutici.

Oculi minuti, papillæformes—distincte reticulati loboque orbitali parvo instruuti, valde approximati, apicales. Sutura facialis portice ab oculis ad marginem baseos anticeque ad marginem apicalem ducta.

Frons distincta, lata, ovata, valde convexa, obsolete lobata, marginem apicalem subattingens. Costa facialis utrinque, obsoleta, brevissima, inter apicem frontis lobumque orbitatem ducta.

Thorax segmentis 12 longitudinaliter sulcatis, apice acutis; rachis distincta, convexa, pleuris latior.

Abdomen parvum, immarginatum, margine dentatum, costis lateralibus obsoletis; rachisbrevis, crassa, conica, marginem haud attingens.”—Angelin, pars, i., fase, ii., 1849.”