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Title: 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."
Year: 1850 (1850s)
Authors: Mantell, Gideon Algernon, 1790-1852 Parkinson, James, 1755-1824. Organic remains of a former world Artis, Edmund Tyrell, 1789-1847. Antediluvian phytology
Subjects: Paleontology
Publisher: London, H. G. Bohn
Contributing Library: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library

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outline of the back of a Nautilus.—Mr. Parkinson.Fig. 14. An Orthoceratite (Orthoceras annulatum, of Sowerby; 0. undulatum, of Kissinger), from the Wenlock Limestone, Dudley.Fig. 15. A fragment of a fossil Nautilus (Nautilus Parkinsoni, of Mr. Edwards), from the London clay of Harwich. It shows the situation of the siphuncle and the form of the septa, as indicated by the sinuous transverse lines.Fig. 16. A polished section of a Nautilus (N. truncatus, of Sowerby), from the Inferior Oolite of Yeovil, Somersetshire. The chambers are filled up with crystalline limestone, with the exception of the six outermost cells, in which are left hollows that are lined with calcareous spar.Fig. 17. Polished section of an Orthoceratite, from the Silurian strata of Oeland, Sweden.Fig. 18. The discoidal part of a Lituite from the same locality as fig. 17.Fig. 19. a polished slab of grey marble, from the Devonian formation of the Rhine. The figures are sections of Orthoceratites, a ; and Lituites, b.
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FOSSIL FAUNA. 137 PLATE LIX. Fossil Cephalopoda, &c. Fig. 1. A fossil shell named Hippurite (Hippurites bioculatus, of DOrbigny), from the southof France. This shell belongs to a family termed Rudistes, whose charactersare somewhat problematical,—some naturalists referring them to the bivalves,and others to the univalves. The Hippurite is generally of an elongated conicalform, and has internally two obtuse longitudinal ridges; the base is sometimespartitioned by transverse septa. Fig. 5, is a longitudinal section of a specimen in which septa are displayed. The apertureis closed by a moveable operculum, or upper valve, as in the specimen fig. 1. Thesubstance of the shell is cellular and very thick, and when fractured, resemblesthat of the lamelliferous corals. Some kinds attain a large size, and are called petrified horns by the inhabitants of the districts in the Pyrenees where theyabound. Though Hippurites are abundant in the chalk of the south of France, andin Spain and Portug

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