The Foot-prints of the Creator: Or, The Asterolepis of Stromness

Agassiz ages algæ ancient animals appear assertors Asterolepis bear belief bimana bones brain Carboniferous cartilaginous Celacanth cerebral character Coccosteus coprolites cranial buckler cranium creation creature degradation deposits dermal detected development hypothesis Diplopterus Dipterus division dog-fish dynasty earth embryotic evidence exhibited existence fact feet fins flora fossil frontal fucoids furnished ganoids genera genus geological geologist head higher Holoptychius human hyoid plate ichthyic ichthyolites inches least lignite limbs Lower Old Red mammals ment Miller miracle molluscs naturalist nature occipital occur Oken Old Red Sandstone organization osseous osseous fishes Osteolepis peculiar period plants Port Jackson Shark portion present principle Professor Owen Pterichthys quadruped race rays regarding represented reptiles resemblance rocks Roderick Murchison scale shagreen Sharks Silurian System skeleton skull species specimens Spinax spines surface tail teeth theory Thurso tion upper vegetable vertebral vertebral column vertebrata Vestiges