General Rocks and History  |  General History of Life  |  Pre-Geological History of Earth – Astral Stage  |  Precambrian Rocks and History  |  Belt Series, Pre-Cambrian, Glacier National Park  |  Cambrian Rocks  |  Cambrian Life  |  Ordovician Rocks and History  |  Ordovician Life  |  Silurian Rocks and History  |  Silurian Life  |  Devonian Rocks and History  |  Devonian Invertebrates  |  Devonian Vertebrates. Fishes.  |  Devonian Tetrapods  |  Devonian Plants  |  Mississippian Rocks and History  |  Mississippian Invertebrates  |  Pennsylvanian Rocks and History  |  Pennsylvanian Invertebrates  |  Pennsylvanian Vertebrates  |  Pennsylvanian Plants  |  Permian Rocks and History  |  Permian Invertebrates  |  Permian Plants

 

GENERAL ROCKS AND HISTORY

651.-.1 Geological Column after Schuchert.
651.-.2 Map of Western United States (Lobeck) showing distribution of rocks.

GENERAL HISTORY OF LIFE

652.-.1 Evolution of the human skull from fish through amphibia and reptiles. Transferred to 841.A.6

PRE-GEOLOGICAL ORIGIN OF EARTH – ASTRAL STAGE

654.A.1 Jupiter showing satellites. 3 views.

PRECAMBRIAN ROCKS AND HISTORY

656.-.1 Precambrian formations of Lake Superior region; general relations to one another.

BELT SERIES, PRE-CAMBRIAN, GLACIER NATIONAL PARK

657.C.1 Distribution of Belt series in United States, Map.
657.C.2 Mud cracked block of Grinnell argillite, Belt Series. Going-to-Sun mountain, Glacier National Park.
657.C.3 Belt series, Pre-Cambrian. Gl.N.P. Ripple marked sandstone in midst of Belt, upper part Grinnel argillite. Glacier valleys cut 1000 feet below it. S.E. slope of Mt. Grinnell.
657.C.4 Belt Series, Pre-Cambrian, Gl.N.P. Mud cracked red shales of upper part Grinnell argillite. Valleys cut 1000 feet below by glaciers. 100,000,000 years of history of sun’s heat. S.E. slope of Mt. Grinnell.
657.C.5 Belt Series, Pre-Cambrian, Gl.N.P. mud cracked red shales of Grinnell argillite. S.E. slope of Mt. Grinnell.
657.C.6 Belt Series, Pre-Cambrian, Gl.N.P. Cliff of Grinnell argillite. S.E. slope of Mt. Grinnell.
657.C.7 Belt Series, Pre-Cambrian, Gl.N.P. Block of sandstone, Grinnell argillite, with molds of dissolved salt crystals. S.E. slope of Mt. Grinnell.
657.C.8 Fossil algae. Altyn limestone, base of Belt, Pre-Cambrian. Swift Current Valley.
657.C.9 Fossil algae. Altyn limestone, base of Belt, Pre-Cambrian. Swift Current Valley.
657.C.10 Fossil algae. Altyn limestone, base of Belt, Pre-Cambrian. Swift Current Valley.
657.C.11 Fossil algae. Altyn limestone, base of Belt, Pre-Cambrian. Swift Current Valley.
657.C.12 Beltina danaei Belt formation, Greyson Shale member. Belt Mountains, Montana.
657.C.13 Belt Series. Scarface Point, Garden Wall Trail on west side of Continental Divide. Glacier National Park, Mont.
657.C.14 Belt Series, Siyeh limestone member, N. face of Mt. Gould, 1900 ft. thickness is shown. Grinnell Glacier in foreground, Cataract Creek in distant left. Glacier National Park, Mont.
657.C.15 Belt Series, folded. Gunsight Mountain, Sperry Trail, Glacier National Park, Mont.
657.C.16 Belt Series, 50,000 ft. thickness is shown in this one peak, above lake level. Mt. Kintla and Kintla Lake. View eastward in N. end of Glacier National Park, Mont.
657.C.17 Belt Series, Grinnell Argillite member below, Siyeh limestone above; thickness 4000 ft. Mt. Wilbur (9293 alt.) Swift Current Peak at left.

CAMBRIAN ROCKS

664.-.1 Paleogeographic maps; Upper Georgic and Acadic (Schuchert).

CAMBRIAN LIFE

665.-.1 Lower Cambrian fossils.
665.-.2 Olenellus thompsoni, Lower Cambrian, North America.
665.-.3 Middle Cambrian fossils.
665.-.4 Upper Cambrian fossils.

ORDOVICIAN ROCKS AND HISTORY

667.-.1 Paleogeographic map; Lower Ozarkic-Middle Beekmantown (Ulrich & Schuchert.)
667.-.2 Paleogeographic map; Saint Peter-Middle Stones River (Ulrich & Schuchert.)
667.-.3 Paleogeographic map; Loweville-lowest Trenton. (Ulrich & Schuchert.)
667.-.4 Paleogeographic map; Late Trenton-Utica. (Ulrich & Schuchert.)
667.-.5 Paleogeographic map; Lorraine-late Richmond. (Ulrich & Schuchert.)

ORDOVICIAN LIFE

668.-.1 Ordovician Pelecypods.
668.-.2 Ordovician graptolites.
668.-.3 Ordovician trilobites.
668.-.4 Triarthrus becki, showing the appendages.
668.-.5 Group of Ordovician brachiopods.
668.-.6 Ordovician gastropods.
668.-.7 Ordovician cephalopods.

SILURIAN ROCKS AND HISTORY

670.-.1 Paleogeographic map; Upper Medina-Ohio Clinton. (Schuchert.)
670.-.2 Paleogeographic map; Wolcott-Williamson. (Schuchert.)
670.-.3 Paleogeographic map; Louisville-Guelph. (Schuchert.)
670.-.4 Paleogeographic map; Lower Salina-Bertie. (Schuchert.)
670.-.5 Shawangunk Conglomerate, Upper Silurian delta from Appalachia. Kittittiny peneplain on skyline of distant Hudson River Highlands PreCambrian. Hudson River (Ordovician) lowland in middle distance. Bonticu Crag, Shawangunk Conglomerate. West of Poughkeepsie, N.Y.

SILURIAN LIFE

671.-.1 Silurian fossils.

DEVONIAN ROCKS AND HISTORY

673.-.1 Paleogeographic map; Lower Manilus – New Scotland. (Schuchert).
673.-.2 Paleogeographic map; Becraft-Decewville. (Schuchert).
673.-.3 Paleogeographic map; MIddle Onondaga-late Hamilton. (Schuchert).
673.-.4 Paleogeographic map; Ithaca-Chemung-Bradfordian. (Schuchert).

DEVONIAN INVERTEBRATES

674.-.1 The Helderbergian fauna
674.-.2 The Onondaga fauna.
674.-.3 The Hamilton fauna.
674.-.4 Worm Trail. Natural cast on underside of a layer os sandstone. Chagrin Shale, Euclid Creek, Cleveland O. Successive whorls can be traced and therefore the direction of movement. Since this is a cast, the original movement was in the opposite direction and the time the reverse of what appears.
674.-.5 Three successive “worm trails”. Natural cast on underside of a layer of sandstone from the Chagrin Shale, Euclid Creek, Cleveland, O. Since this is a cast, the time succession was the reverse of what appears.
674.-.6 Three “worm trails” or “algae”. Natural cast on underside of a layer of sandstone from the Chagrin Shale, Euclid Creek, O. When apparent order is traced, there is no succession based on assumption of superposition. Can be explained (1) as burrows which avoided other burrows, and order not determinable. (2) as stems that fall simultaneously.

DEVONIAN VERTEBRATES. FISHES

675.-.1 Devonian fresh water fishes from Old Red Sandstone of Scotland. Osteolepis and Cheirolepis. (Crossopterygians.)
675.-.2 Devonian fresh water fishes from the Old Red Sandstone of Scotland. Dipterus (lung fish, Dipnoan), Holoptichus (Crossopterygian ganoid.)
675.-.3 Group of Devonian fishes.
675.-.4 Cleveland shale fish. Cladoselache fyleri, a primitive shark. Big Creek Cleveland. the knot midway is a coprolite, the filling of the intestine, and shows mold of the spiral valve. The scales of a small Paleoniscid fish are present, opposite the fore fin, the last meal eaten.
675.-.5 Cleveland shale fish. Cladoselache Kepleri. A primitive shark, 5 ft. long, Big Creek, Cleveland. Note fore fins, spinal column (neural arches only) and pelvic girdle opposite hind fin. C.M.N.H No. 5135.
675.-.6 Cleveland shale fish. Cladoselache, a primitive shark. Section across body at fore fis shows pectoral muscles, muscles around neck, and scales of a recently eaten Paleoniscus. C.M.N.H. No. 5141.
675.-.7 Cleveland shale fish. Restoration of Cladoselache newberryi, a primitive shark.
675.-.8 Cleveland shale fish. Cladoselache fyleri, a primitive shark. Restoration of head.
675.-.9 Devonian ostracoderm; Scotland. Ptericthys testudinarius, Agassiz.
675.-.10 Devonian ostracoderm; 3 views of Ptericthys milleri, Agassiz.
675.-.11 Devonian ostracoderm; Bothriolepis canadensis, Whiteves.
675.-.12 Devonian ostracoderm; upper and lower surfaces of Bothriolepis.
675.-.13 Devonian ostracoderm; side view of Cephalaspis lyelli.
675.-.14 Devonian ostracoderm; view of Cephalaspis from below.
675.-.15 Devonian fish; srtrodire; Coccosteus decipiens, Agassiz.
675.-.16 Cleveland shale fish. Dinichthys, an arthrodire. The top of the cranium andterior end up.
675.-.17 Cleveland shale fish. Dinichthys, an arthrodire. Underside of the head showing pineal pit.
675.-.18 Cleveland shale fish. Dinicthys clarki. Full set of jaw parts in proper position. From Big Creek, Cleveland.
675.-.19 Cleveland shale fish. Dinicthys intermedius Newberry. Mandibles.
675.-.20 Cleveland shale fish. Dinicthys intermedius Newberry. Restoration.
675.-.21 Cleveland shale fish. Dinicthys intermedius Newberry. Restoration.
675.-.22 Cleveland shale fish. Titanichthys agassizi and clarki. Arthrodires. Mandibles.
675.-.23 Cleveland shale fish. Titanichthys agassizi Newberry. Arthrodire. Mandible.
675.-.24 Types of tails of fishes.
675.-.25 Living allies of Devonian fishes Polypterus; Lepidosteus; Amia and Cestracion phillippi.
675.-.26 Modern nearest living allie of Devonian fishes; Lepidosiren and Ceradotus fosteri.
675.-.27 Dinichthys terrelli Newby. Cleveland Shale. Rocky River, first bank below Cedar Point. An intermediate stage in assemblage. Specimen 768, C.M.N.H.
675.-.28 Unname new genus and family of shark. Three ranks of teeth, 4-5 teeth in each rank. Teeth with 8 or 9 cusps. Specimen, C.M.N.H. No. 737. Cleveland Shale, Big Creek. S.W. of Cleveland, O.
675.-.29 Shark, Ctenacanthus clarkii, Newb. Head, at top, gill bars, pectoral girdle, base of right fin. Small Arthrodire jaws and part of head, between elements of pectoral girdle. See slide 675.-.30 C.M.N.H. Specimen No. 6219, Cleveland Shale, Big Creek, S.W. of Cleveland, Ohio.
675.-.30 Trachosteus? sp. Jaws and head parts of small arthrodire caught in throat of shark. Ctenacanthus. See slide 675.-.29 C.M.N.H. Specimen No. 6219, Cleve. Shale, Big Creek, S.W. of Cleveland Ohio.
675.-.31 Selachian, N. family. Big Creek, Cleveland Shale, Cleveland, O. Spec. 737, C.M.N.H.
675.-.32 Selachian, N. gen. N. family. Showing sense lines of belly and right pectoral fin. Spec. 737, C.M.N.H.
675.-.33 Dinichthys. No. 768, C.M.N.H. Back of head to show joints.
675.-.34 Dinichthys terrelli No. 768, C.M.N.H. See slide 1006.Ga.3 Dinicthys curtus No. 6194, C.M.N.H.
675.-.35 Dinichthys terrelli. No. 768, C.M.N.H., with largest jaw yet found, no. 5936, C.M.N.H.
675.-.36 Dinichthys terrelli, No. 768, C.M.N.H. with model (inaccurate) to show approximate head and mouth action.
675.-.37 Dinichthys. Unusually complete head mounted as found. C.M.N.H. N. 740.
675.-.38 Dinichthys, Right: A complete right superognathal as found, the mended fractures due to pressure of shale. No. 894. Center: A right superognathal as found buried, with tip sprung off by a great blow on the point before burial. No. 643. Left: Small dorso-median carrying tooth scars, No. 641.
675.-.39 Cladoselache, Cleveland Shale, Big Creek. No. 132, C.M.N.H.
675.-.40 Cladoselache, Cleveland Shale, Big Creek. Showing a splendid pair of pectoral fins. Muscle myomeres of body. Constrictor muscles of neck. Gill filaments. No. 912, C.M.N.H.
675.-.41 Cladoselache, as split open. No. 141, C.M.N.H. Cleveland Shale, Big Creek. Same specimen shown enlarged in slide 675.-.6.
675.-.42 Cladoselache, Cleveland Shale, Big Creek. Showing muscle myomeres. No. 42, C.M.N.H.
675.-.43 Voluntary muscle fibers showing transverse striation. Heterodontus (Cestracion) japonicus. (In cut, 2 3/4 in. sq. x 1000 times).
675.-.44 Fossilized voluntary muscle fibres of Cladoselache fyleri, showing transverse striation. Magnified 1000 times in cut 2 3/4 in. sq.
675.-.45 Eusthenopteran foordi, a Crossopterygian. Upper Devonian, Migouasha, GaspZ?, Quebec.

DEVONIAN TETRAPODS

675.B.1 Thinopus antiquus. Earliest known foot-print, uppermost Devonian, Warren, Pa. About 3″ long. Right, footprint with three toes; left, cast showing shape of foot.

DEVONIAN PLANTS

676.-.1 Group of Devonian plants. Dawson.
676.B.1 Upper Devonian Land Forest. Two Eospermatoperis trunks in place. Upper of three levels within 200 ft. thickness. Catskill Formation, Gilboa, N.Y.
676.B.2 Upper Devonian Land Forest. Two Eospermatoperis trunks in place. Upper level. Catskill Formation, Gilboa, N.Y.
676.B.3 Upper Devonian Land Forest. Eospermatoperis trunk in place, the right-hand one in 676.B.1. Catskill Formation, Gilboa, N.Y.
676.B.4 Upper Devonian Land Forest. Eospermatoperis trunks. Some trunks are 3 1/2 ft. in diameter. Catskill Formation, Gilboa, N.Y.
676.B.5 Upper Devonian Land Forest. Eospermatoperis. Shale in which set with strap-like radiating rootlets. Catskill Formation, Giboa, N.Y.
676.B.6 Upper Devonian Land Forest. Eospermatoperis. Slab of shale, 3 ft. long on lower edge, showing main rachis and branches of the fern-like leaves. Leaves were certainly 6 ft. long, and probably much larger. Catskill Formation, Gilboa, N.Y.
676.B.7 Upper Devonian Land Forest. Eospermatoperis. 1 to 4, tips of leaf pinnacles. 5 to 12, seeds in pairs, with enclosing husk, figs. 7&8.
676.B.8 Upper Devonian Land Forest. Reconstruction of Eospermatoperis tree. One trunk is 3 1/2 ft. in diameter at base. Catskill Formation, Gilboa, N.Y.
676.B.9 Upper Devonian Land Forests as reconstructed in N.Y. State Museum, Albany. Present occurances, stumps at 3 levels, (shortened from 200 ft. thickness) with background of reconstructed forests with primitive Lepidodendrons. At lowest level, 18 stumps were recovered fro 50 sq. ft.
676.B.10 Removing Eospermatopteris stump from Riverside Quarry, Gilboa, N.Y.

MISSISSIPPIAN ROCKS AND HISTORY

678.-.1 Paleogeographic map; Fern Glen-Burlington. (Schuchert).
678.-.2 Paleogeographic map; St. Louis-Chester. (Schuchert).

MISSISSIPPIAN INVERTEBRATES

679.-.1 The lower Mississippian (Kinderhook) Fauna.
679.-.2 Upper Mississippian fauna. (Genevieve).
679.-.3 Camarophorella mutabilis Hyde, a Merestelloid Brachiopod. Age, Mississippian. Locality, Sciotoville, Ohio.
679.-.4 Camarophorella mutabilis Hyde. A Mississippian Merestelloid Brachiopod. Sciotoville, Ohio.

PENNSYLVANIAN ROCKS AND HISTORY

683.-.1 Paleogeographic maps; Upper Pottsville-Upper Pennsylvanian.

PENNSYLVANIAN INVERTEBRATES

684.-.1 Carboniferous crustaceans; Meek and Worthen; Illinois.
684.-.2 The Pennsylvanian fauna.

PENNSYLVANIAN VERTEBRATES

685.-.1 Gyracanthides murrayi S. Woodward. Acanthodian elasmobranch. “Carboniferous”. Pennsylvanian, possibly Permian, Mansfiels, Victoria, Australia.
685.-.2 Pennsylvanian Amphibian. Amphibamus grandiceps, Mazon Creek, Illinois.

PENNSYLVANIAN PLANTS

686.-.1 Carboniferous vegetation; composite group of various plants.
686.-.2 Equisetum, Horsetail rush. Note fruiting bodies. Small living descendants of Calamites, growing in form of a Pennsylvanian Forest, and under similar conditions. Calamites in sand. These Equisetums on quarry dump. Cleveland.
686.-.3 Equisetum, Horsetail rush. Growing in form of a Pennsylvanian forest. Near Lorain, Ohio.
686.-.4 Lycopodum, Ground Pine. Small living representatives of Lepidodendrons. Note fruiting cones. Mode of growth suggests diminutive Pennsylvanian Lepidodendron forest. Riversdale, N.S.
686.-.5 Lycopodum, Ground Pine. Small living representatives of Lepidodendrons. Note fruiting cones. Mode of growth suggests diminutive Pennsylvanian Lepidodendron forest. Riversdale, N.S.

PERMIAN ROCKS AND HISTORY

688.-.1 Paleogeographic maps; Lower Permic-lower Triassic. (Schuchert).
688.-.2 Glaciated surface under Dwyka conglomerate. Balmoral, Transvaal.
688.-.3 Dwyka conglomerate (Tillite) near Prieska, Cape Colony.

PERMIAN INVERTEBRATES

689.-.1 Group of Permian marine forms.
690.-.1 Permian fish. Ganoid. Thuringia, Paleoniscus macropomus, Traq.
690.-.2 Permian fish. Ganoid. Germany. Platysomus gibbosus. Traquair.
690.-.3 Permian Amphibian, Texas. Trematops Milleri.
690.-.4 Eryops (A Stegocephalian) Lower Permian, (Wichita formation) Archer county Texas.
690.-.5 Eryops skeleton.
690.-.6 Diploculis skull and part of skeleton.
690.-.7 Permian reptile. Cotylosaur, Seymoria baylorensis. Texas.
690.-.8 Permocarboniferous, Cotylosaur Limnoscelis paludis, Williston.
690.-.8b Limnoscelis paludis Will. Type; Restor. Lull in Yale Museum. Permo-carboniferous, El Cobre canon, N. New Mexico. Single row conical teeth above and below adapted to seize and hold soft, slippery prey, not fish. Slow moving, at home in water or marshes, dense vegetation, much like many wood newts, possibly, also on mud-flats. Cotylosaur reptile, 7′ long, generalized type, fully capable of having been source of most Mesozoic reptilian radiation.
690.-.9 Permian; Casea broilii, Varanosaurus brevitroetris.
690.-.10 Diadectes skeleton, Lower Permian.
690.-.11 Permian reptile, protocosaur; Palaeohatteria longicaudata.
690.-.12 Karoo form. Permian or Triassic. Pareiasaurus lutini.
690.-.13 Naosaurus claviger cope. Permian (A Pelycosauria). Texas.
690.-.14 Dimetrodon incisivus.
690.-.15 Moschops skeleton.
690.-.16 Cynognathus crateronotus. Permian or Triassic (Karoo formation) South Africa.
690.-.17 Hatteria punctata. A living Rhynchocephalian. New Zealand.

PERMIAN PLANTS

691.-.1 The Glossopteris Flora. Permian. North and South America, also Europe and Asia.