14 THE HISTOEY OF CREATION. 



SUEVEY 



Of the Falceontological Periods, or of the Greater Divisions of the 

 Organic History of the Earth. 



I. First Epoch : Aechilithic Era. Primordial Epoch. 

 (Era of Skull-less Animals and Forests of Tangles.) 



1. Older Primordial Period or Lanrentian Period. 



2. Middle Primordial Period „ Cambrian Period. 



3. Later Primordial Period „ SUurian Period. 



II. Second Epoch : Palj:olithic Era. Primarn Epoch. 

 (Era of Fish and Fern Forests.) 



4. Older Primary Period or Devonian Period. 



5. Mid Primary Period „~ Coal Period. 



6. Later Primary Period „ Permian Period. 



III. Third Epoch : Mesolithic Era. Secondary Epoch. 

 (Era of Eeptiles and Pine Forests.) 



7. Older Secondary Period or Trias Period. 



8. Middle Secondary Period „ Jura Period. 



9. Later Secondary Period „ Chalk Period. 



IV. Fourth Epoch : C^nolithic Era. Tertiary Epoch. 

 (Era of Mammals and Leaf Forests.) 



10. Older Tertiary Period or Eocene Period. 



11. Newer Tertiary Period „ Miocene Period. 



12. Recent Tertiary Period „ Pliocene Period. 



V. Fifth Epoch : Anthropolithic Era. Quaternary Epoch. 

 (Era of Man and Cultivated Forests.) 



13. Older Quaternary Period or Ice or Glacial Period. 



14. Newer Quaternary Period „ Post Glacial Period. 



15. Recent Quaternary Period „ Period of Culture. 



(The Period of Culture is the Historical Period, or the Period of Tradition.) 



