Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The typical genus of the family Asaphidæ.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Paleon.) A genus of trilobites found in the Lower Silurian formation. See
Illust. in Append.
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One important remark has been made, that a comparatively small variety of species is found in the older rocks, although of some particular ones the remains are very abundant; as, for instance, of a species of asaphus, which is found between the laminae of some of the slate rocks of Wales, and the corresponding rocks of Normandy and Germany in enormous quantities.
Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation Robert Chambers 1836
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The cephalaspis may be considered as making the smallest advance from the crustacean character; it very much resembles in form the asaphus of lower formations, having a longish tail-like body inserted within the cusp of a large crescent-shaped head, somewhat like a saddler's cutting-knife.
Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation Robert Chambers 1836
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