Smith, Hamilton Lanphere, 1819-1903. [from old catalog] · Cleveland, M. C. Younglove and company · leaf 317
, appears to be some minute organic substance, usually a frag-ment of coral, or a shell. To this class belong the so-calledOxford and Kimmeredge clays, and the Jura limestone, since themass of the Jura mountains in France is of the oolite formation.During this period, an immense number of marine… … lobster, from the oolite clay of Yorkshire, England. The fossilremains of insects are also common in these strata, and very pe-culiar and beautiful forms of ammonite^ which s§ems to have THE BELEMNITE. 315 been most perfectly developed in the lias seas. We have beforedescribed a cephalapod called…
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