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 TABLE XVI. 



Systematic Survey of the most Important Stages in the Animal 



Ancestral Line of Man. 



MN = Boundary between the Invertebrate and the Vertebrate Ancestors. 



Epochs of the 



Geological Periods 



Animal 





Nearest 



Organic 



of the 



Ancestral Stages 





Living Relative* 



History of the 



Organic History 



of 





of the 



Earth. 



of the Earth. 



Man. 





A ncestral Stage*. 





t 



1. Monera 



I 



Bathybiu8 







(Monera) 



Protamceba 







2. Oldest Amoebae 



! 



Simple Amoebae 

 (Automaba) 







3. Amoeboid Societies 



(Synamwbia) 



4. Ciliated planulae 



(Planwadrp) 



1 



Morula larva? 







! 



Blastula larv« 







5. Primitive Intes- 



( 





I. 





tinal animals 





Gastrula larvap 



1. Laurentian Period 



(Gastrcvadre) 



\ 





Archilithic 





6. Primitive Worms 



{ 



Gliding Worms 



or < 



2. Cambrian Period 



(Archelminthes) 



(Turbellaria) 



Primordial 

 "Epoch 



3. Silurian Period 



7. Soft-worms 

 (Scolecida) 



1 



? Between the glid- 

 ing worms and the 

 Sea-squirts 







8. Chorda animals 



J Sea-squirts (Ascidias) 







(Chordoma) 

 M 



9. Skull-less animals 



1 



(Appendicularia ) 



N 



Lancelets 







! 







(Acrania) 



(Amphioxi) 

 Lampreys 







10. Round-mouths 



1 







(Cyclo>tomi) 



(Petromyzonta) 







11. Primitive Fishes 



1 



Sharks 





i 



(Selachii) 



(Squalacei) 



n. 



4. Devonian Period 



l 12. Salamander Fishes 



\ 



Mud fish 



(Dipneusta) 



(Protoptera) 



Paleeolithic 



or 



Primary 



Epoch 



5. Coal Period 



6. Permian Period 



13. Gilled Amphibia 

 (Sozobranchia) 



14. Tailed Amphibia 



i 



Siren (Proteus) 

 and Axolotl 



(Siredon) 

 Water-newt 



, 



, (Sozura) 



(Triton) 





/ 



i 15. Primitive Am- 



( 



? Between Tailed 



m. 



7. Triassic Period 



8. Jurassic Period 



9. Chalk Period 



niota 



\ 



Amphibians and 



Mesolithic 



or 

 Secondary 



(Protamnia) 

 16. Primitive Mam- 

 mals 

 (Promammalia) 



! 



Beaked animals 



Beaked animals 

 (Monotrema) 



Epoch 



17. Pouched Animals 



i 



Pouched Rata 





I 



v (Marsupialia) 



(Didelphyes) 





1 



' 18. Semi-Apes 



Lori (Stenops) 



IV. 





(Prosimice) 



Maki ( Lemur') 



10 Eocene Period 



19. Tailed Narrow- 



! 



Nose Apes 



Casnolithic 





nosed Apes 



Holy Apes 



or ■* 



11. Miocene Period 



20. Men-like Apes or 



1 



Gorilla, Chimpau- 



Tertiary 

 Epoch 



12. Pliocene Period 



I Tail-less Narrow- 

 nosed Apes. 



zee, Orang, 

 Gibbon 





1 21. Speechless Men or 



1 



Cretins or Micro* 





i 



\ Ape-like Men 



cephali 



^ V ' 



13. Diluvial Period f 2 2. Men capable of 



! 



Australians and 



Quaternary 



14. Alluvial Period 



I speech 



Papuans 



Epoch 



