Essay on the Theory of the Earth - baron Georges Cuvier

SECTION
Illustrative of the succession of the Secondary Formations
and of the distribution of
PETRIFACTIONS.

Primitive Rocks
No Fossil Organic Remains.
Transition Rocks
First Appearance of Fossil Shells and Corals.
1^st Sandstone or Old Red Sandstone & Old Red Conglomerate
Fossil Wood; Fossil Fishes?
1^st Limestone or Mountⁿ Limestone
Fossil Corals & Shells.
2^d Sandstone or Coal Formation
Impressions of Plants principally Monocotyledonous, many with
a Tropical aspect.
New Red Conglomerate
2^d Limestone or Magnesian Limestone
First appearance of Fossil Fishes and of Fossil Oviparous
Quadrupeds.
3^d Sandstone or New Red Sandstone
Fossil Shells, Corals & Vegetables.
3^d or Shell Limestone
Fossil Shells.
4^th Sandstone or variegated Marl
Fossil Plants and Shells.
4^th Limestone or Java Oolite & Lias Limestones
Fossil Shells, Corals, Crustacæ, Lacertæ, Turtles.
Fishes and Vegetables.
5^th Sandstone or Green Sand or Quader Sandstone
with Coal, Fishes, Lacertæ & Emydes.
5^th Limestone & Chalk
Fossil Shells, Corals, Lacertæ, Turtles & Fishes.
Brown Coal Formation
Crocodiles &c. also Dictyledonous Plants.
Hertfordshire Puddingstone
Crocodiles &c. also Dictyledonous Plants.
Paris Formation
First appearance of Fossil Remains of Birds & Mammiferous Animals.
Diluvial Formation
Remains of extinct species of Elephant, Rhinoceros, Hippopotamus,
Tapir, Deer, Hyena, Bear &c.
Post Diluvial Formation
Fossil Remains of the Human Species first appear in this
formation.

Edinburgh Published by W^m Blackwood 1827. W. H. Lizars Sc.

PLATE. II. a

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Extraordinary animal, named PTERODACTYLUS LONGIROSTRIS found near Aichstedt in Germany.
Edinburgh Published by W^m. Blackwood 1827.