Fig. 182. ILLUSTRATION OF THE ANIMAL AND VEGETABLE KINGDOMS DURING THE 

 TERTIARY AGE. 



a. Palseotherium magnum. 



b. Palseotherium minus. 



c. Auoplotherium commune. 



d. Crocodile. 



THE PRE-ADAMITE EARTH. 



CHAPTEE III. 



246. Derivations of the names. 247. Examples of the classes. 248. 

 Number of fossil species. 249. Their distribution in 29 stages. 250. 

 These stages correspond to 29 periods. 251. Successive manifestations 

 of creative power. 252. First creation of organised beings. 253. 

 General view of the series of catastrophes. 254. The Palaeozoic 

 age: Murchison's section of the corresponding stages. 255. How 

 these are manifested in different parts of the world. 256. Stratigra- 

 phical evidence of the distinction of the stages. 257. Five stages of 

 the Palaeozoic formation. 258. Vegetable kingdom of the Palaeozoic 

 age. 259. FIRST PALJEOZOIC PERIOD. 260. Extent and limits of the 

 seas. 261. Character of the Fauna. 262. Of the Flora. 263. 

 Tropical climate universal. 264. No terrestrial animals. 265. 

 Inhabitants of the seas. 266. Synopsis of the animal kingdom. 

 267. Examples, 268. Duration 1 of this period. 269. SECOND 

 PALAEOZOIC PERIOD. 270. Synopsis of the animal kingdom. 271. 

 Genera created and revived. 272. General character of the animal 

 and vegetable kingdoms. 273. Outlines of land and water. 274. 

 Elie de Beaumont's Silurian map of Western Europe. THIRD 

 PALEOZOIC PERIOD : 275. Mineral character of the strata. 276. 

 Table of the Fauna. 277. Mollusca and Radiata. 278. Outlines of 

 land and v/ater. 279. Extent of the seas. FOURTH PALEOZOIC 

 PERIOD: 280. Table of the fauna. 281. Fossil Crustacea. 282. 

 Mollusca and Radiate. 



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