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TABLE OF THE PRINCIPAL FOSSILIFEROUS STRATA ARRANGED IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER.

_Land Plants._-----------+
_Invertebrata._--------+ |
_Fishes._------------+ | |
_Amphibia._--------+ | | |
_Reptiles._------+ | | | |
_Birds._-------+ | | | | |
_Mammalia._--+ | | | | | |
_Man._-----+ | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | |
{Alluvial Deposits, | | | | | | | |
_Quaternary, { River Valley | | | | | | | |
or { Gravels and | | | | | | | |
Pleistocene._ { Cave Deposits. | | | | | | | |
{Drift and Glacial | | | | | | | |
{ Deposits. V | | | | | | |
| | | | | | |
_Cainozoic, {Pliocene. | | | | | | |
or {Miocene. | | | | | | |
Tertiary._ {Eocene. | | | | | | |
| | | | | | |
{ {Chalk. | | | | | | |
{ _Cretaceous._ {Upper Greensand. | | | | | | |
{ {Gault. | | | | | | |
{ | | | | | | |
{ _Neocomian._ {Lower Greensand. | V | | | | |
{ {Wealden. | : | | | | |
{ | : | | | | |
MESO- { { {Purbeck. | : | | | | |
ZOIC, { {_Upper._{Portland. | : | | | | |
or { { {Kimmeridge Clay. | : | | | | |
SECOND-{ { | : | | | | |
ARY. { { _Mid._ {Coral Rag. | : | | | | |
{ { _Oo- { {Oxford Clay. | : | | | | |
{ {lites._{ | : | | | | |
{ { { {Cornbrash and | : | | | | |
{ { { { Forest Marble. | : | | | | |
{ _Jurassic._{ {_Lower._{Great Oolite. | : | | | | |
{ { { {Fullers' Earth. | : | | | | |
{ { { {Inferior Oolite. | : | | | | |
{ { | : | | | | |
{ { Lias. | : | | | | |
| : | | | | |
{ {Trias, or New | : | | | | |
{ _Poikilitic._ { Red Sandstone. V ? V | | | |
{ {Permian. | | | |
{ | | | |
{ {Coal Measures. V | | |
{ {Millstone Grit | | |
{ _Carboniferous._ { and Yoredale | | |
{ { Rocks. | | |
{ {Carboniferous | | |
{ { Limestone, etc. | | |
{ | | |
{ Devonian and Old | | |
{ Red Sandstone. | | |
PALÆO- { | | |
ZOIC, { {Ludlow Beds. | | |
or { {Wenlock Beds. | | V
PRI- { _Silurian._ {Woolhope Beds. | |
MARY. { {Tarannon Shale. | |
{ {Llandovery or May | |
{ { Hill Group. V |
{ |
{ {Bala and |
{ { Caradoc Beds. |
{ {Llandeilo Flags. |
{ {Arenig Group. |
{ _Cambrian._ {Tremadoc Slates. |
{ {Lingula Flags. |
{ {Menevian Beds. |
{ {Longmynd and |
{ { Harlech Group. V
{ :
{ Pre-Cambrian and :
{ Laurentian. ?

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