The Foot-prints of the Creator: Or, The Asterolepis of StromnessGould, 1854 - 337 pages |
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Agassiz algæ ancient animals appear Asterolepis bones Brachiopods brain cartilaginous centre cerebral character Coccosteus Coelacanth coprolites cranial buckler cranium creation creature degradation deposits dermal detected development hypothesis Diplopterus Dipterus division dog-fish dynasty earth evidence exhibited existence fact fins flora fossil fucoids furnished Ganoids genera geological geologist greatly head higher Holoptychius HUGH MILLER human hyoid plate ichthyic ichthyolites Illustrations inches least lignite limbs Limestone Lower Old Red mammals ment Miller miracle molluscs nature occipital occur Oken Old Red Sandstone organization original osseous fishes Osteolepis peculiar period plants portion present principle Professor Pterichthys Puritan Recorder quadruped rays reader regarding remarkable represented reptiles resemblance rocks Roderick Murchison says scale seems shagreen Sharks Silurian skeleton skull species specimens Spinax spines style surface tail teeth Thurso tion upper vegetation vertebral vertebral column vertebrata Vestiges volume