polypiaria

It is also remarked, in objection, that the mollusca and articulata appear in the same group of rocks (the slate system) with polypiaria, crinoidea, and other specimens of the humblest sub-kingdom; some of the mollusca, moreover, being cephalopods, which are the highest of their division in point of organization.

An Expository Outline of the "Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation" With a Notice of the Author's "Explanations:" A Sequel to the Vestiges Anonymous

Now it is fossils of the _radiata_ division of the animal kingdom that are found in the lowest stratified rocks, polypiaria and crinodia, the first including various forms of these extraordinary animals

An Expository Outline of the "Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation" With a Notice of the Author's "Explanations:" A Sequel to the Vestiges Anonymous

In the department of zoology, we see, first, traces all but certain of infusoria [shelled animalculæ]; then polypiaria, crinoidea, and some humble forms of the articulata and mollusca; afterwards higher forms of the mollusca; and it appears that these existed for ages before there were any higher types of being.

An Expository Outline of the "Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation" With a Notice of the Author's "Explanations:" A Sequel to the Vestiges Anonymous

It is true that we first see polypiaria, crinoidea, articulata, and mollusca, but not exactly in the order stated by the author.

An Expository Outline of the "Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation" With a Notice of the Author's "Explanations:" A Sequel to the Vestiges Anonymous

In this era, the forms of life which existed in the Silurian are continued: we have the same orders of marine creatures, zoophyta, polypiaria, conchifera, crustacea; but to these are added numerous fishes, some of which are of most extraordinary and surprising forms.

Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation Robert Chambers 1836

It contains many genera of crinoidea and polypiaria, and it is thought that some beds of it are wholly the production of the latter creatures, or are, in other words, coral reefs transformed by heat and pressure into rocks.

Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation Robert Chambers 1836

The mountain limestone, indeed, deposited at the commencement of it, abounds unusually in polypiaria and crinoidea; but when we ascend to the coal-beds themselves, the case is altered, and these marine remains altogether disappear.

Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation Robert Chambers 1836

Species, in the same low class of animals, are now much more limited; for instance, the Red Sea gives different polypiaria, zoophytes, and shell-fish, from the Mediterranean.

Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation Robert Chambers 1836

The polypiaria were in such abundance as to form whole strata of themselves.

Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation Robert Chambers 1836