Footprints of the Creator, Or, The Asterolepis of Stromness

ages algæ ancient animals appear assertors Asterolepis bear belief bimana bones brain Carboniferous cartilaginous Celacanth centre cerebral character Coccosteus coprolites cranial buckler cranium creation creatures Cuvier degradation deposits dermal detected development hypothesis Diplopterus Dipterus division dog-fish dynasty earth embryotic evidence exhibits existence fact fins flora fossil frontal fucoids furnished ganoids genera genus geological geologist greatly head higher Holoptychius human hyoid plate ichthyic ichthyolite inches least lignite limbs Linnæus Lower Old Red mammals mammiferous quadruped miracle molluscs nature occipital occur Oken Old Red Sandstone organization osseous osseous fishes Osteolepis peculiar period placoids plants portion present principle Professor quadruped racter rays regarding represented reptiles resemblance rocks Roderick Murchison scale seems shagreen Sharks Silurian System skeleton skull snout species specimens Spinax spine surface tail teeth Thurso tion true tubercles upper vegetation vertebral vertebral column vertebrata Vestiges