palaeozoic

“As usual,” Henry noted dryly, “the persons who are needed are hit, while I, who am an unnecessary palaeozoic reptile am only senile.”

The Five of Hearts Patricia O'Toole 2008

“As usual,” Henry noted dryly, “the persons who are needed are hit, while I, who am an unnecessary palaeozoic reptile am only senile.”

The Five of Hearts Patricia O'Toole 2008

Among the corals, the palaeozoic ‘Tabulata’ are constructed on precisely the same type as the modern millepores; and if we turn to molluscs, the most competent malacologists fail to discover any generic distinction between the ‘Craniae’,

Essays 2007

Finally, with respect to the ‘Vertebrata’, the same law holds good: certain types, such as those of the ganoid and placoid fishes, having persisted from the palaeozoic epoch to the present time without a greater amount of deviation from the normal standard than that which is seen within the limits of the group as it now exists.

Essays 2007

Ancient beaches are met with whose pebbles are like those found on modern shores; the hardened sea-sands of the oldest epochs show ripple-marks, such as may now be found on every sandy coast; nay, more, the pits left by ancient rain-drops prove that even in the very earliest ages, the “bow in the clouds” must have adorned the palaeozoic firmament.

Essays 2007

These multitudinous strata present such resemblances and differences among themselves that they are capable of classification into groups or formations, and these formations again are brigaded together into still larger assemblages, called by the older geologists, primary, secondary, and tertiary; by the moderns, palaeozoic, mesozoic, and cainozoic: the basis of the former nomenclature being the relative age of the groups of strata; that of the latter, the kinds of living forms contained in them.

Essays 2007

And, in like manner, the palaeozoic scorpions can only be distinguished by the eye of a naturalist from the modern ones.

Essays 2007

The four arteries all arise in inner regions of the secondary age, subtended east and west by ghats, or containing mountains mostly of palaeozoic or primary formation, the upheaval of earthquakes and volcanoes.

Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003

The Rocky Mountains are composed chiefly of palaeozoic sediments ranging in age from the Cambrian to the Carboniferous, with subordinate infolded areas of Cretaceous which hold coal.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various

Characteristic British Fossils, with Descriptive Remarks_, of which only the first volume, dealing with palaeozoic species, was issued.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various