Smith, Hamilton Lanphere, 1819-1903. [from old catalog] · Cleveland, M. C. Younglove and company · leaf 318
e nautilus, a well known cephalapodous animal, closelyrelated to the ammonite, was -likewise abundant. The nautilusstill inhabits our tropical seas, and unfolds its fleshy sails to thegentle breezes, but long since the ammonite has been extinct.Another of the same class or group of animals, and… … sometimes called by the singular names of the devils toe-nail,thunderbolt, &c; the general appearance of the fossil is howev-er as represented in fig. 1, and perhaps no organic remains haveever caused more ludicrous mistakes, or given rise to more fanci-ful theories. It is the internal skeleton…
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