Figures and descriptions of Canadian organic remains

Title Variants

Alternative: Canadian organic remains

By

Billings, E. (Elkanah), 1820-1876
Hall, James, 1811-1898
Jones, T. Rupert (Thomas Rupert), 1819-1911
Salter, John William, 1820-1869
Thompson, John Vaughan, 1779-1847
Geological Survey of Canada

Type

Book

Material

Published material

Publication info

Montreal, Printed by J. Lovell, 1858-1865 (v. 1, 1859)

Notes

At head of title: Geological Survey of Canada. Sir W.E. Logan, F.R.S., director.

Vols. called Decade I-decade IV.

Each of the 55 plates accompanied by leaf with descriptive letterpress.

Decade II has imprint: Montreal : Dawson Brothers ; London, New York, and Paris, Ballière, 1865.

Decade 2 includes index.

Contents: decade 1. [Fossils from the base of the Trenton group / by J.W. Salter]. 1859 -- decade 2. Graptolites of the Quebec group / by James Hall. 1865 -- decade 3. [On the Cystideae of the Lower Silurian rocks of Canada / by E. Billings. On the Asteriadae of the Lower Silurian rocks of Canada / by E. Billings. On Cyclocystoides, a new genus of Echinodermata from the Lower and Middle Silurian rocks / by J.W. Salter and E. Billings. On the Palaeozoic bivalve Entomostraca of Canada / by T.R Jones]. 1858 -- decade IV. [On the Crinoideae of the Lower Silurian rocks of Canada / by E. Billings. Memoir on the star-fish of the genus Comatula, demonstrative of the Pentacrinus europaeus / by John V. Thompson]. 1859.

Subjects

Canada , Ordovician , Paleontologie , Paleontology , Silurian

Call Number

QE748 .A4

Classification

560.971

Language

English

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.15051
LCCN: https://lccn.loc.gov/gs06000256
OCLC: 4200303
Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q51420777