Страница - 313 Страница - 315 A third or more of the species of mollusca extinct. Nearly, if not all, the mammalia extinct. About two-thirds of the species of shells extinct. The recent species of shells often not found in the adjoining
seas, but in warmer latitudes. All the mammalia extinct. Upper marine of Paris basin, Fontainebleau sandstone, [p. 175.] Upper freshwater and millstone of same. Kleyn Spauwen beds, [p. 176.] Hermsdorf tile-clay, near Berlin. Mayence tertiary strata, [p. 177.] Freshwater beds of Limagne d'Auvergne, [p. 181.] Fossil shells of the Eocene period, with very few exceptions, extinct.
Those which are identified with living species rarely belong
to neighbouring regions All the mammalia of extinct species, and the greater part of them of
extinct genera. Plants of Upper Eocene, indicating a south European
or Mediterranean climate; those of Lower Eocene, a tropical climate. Paris gypsum with Paleotherium, &c., [p. 191.] Freshwater and fluvio-marine beds of Headon Hill, Isle of Wight,
[p. 197.] Barton beds, Hants, [p. 198.] Calcaire Grossier, Paris, [p. 193.] Bagshot and Bracklesham beds, Surrey and Sussex, [p. 198.] London clay proper of Highgate Hill and Sheppey,—Bognor
beds, Sussex, [p. 200.] Sables inférieurs, and lits coquilliers of Paris basin, [p. 196.] Mottled and plastic clays and sands of the Hampshire and
London basins, [p. 203.] Sables inférieurs and argiles plastiques of Paris basin, [p. 196.] Nummulitic formation of the Alps, [p. 205.] Yellowish white limestone of Maestricht, [p. 209.] Coralline limestone of Faxoe, Denmark, [p. 210.] Loose sand, with bright green particles, ibid. Firestone of Merstham, Kent, [p. 218.] Marly stone, with layers of chert, south of Isle of Wight.