"Belemnite" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... gives way to the other deposits, lies the ground of which this memoir attempts to speak. It is uneven ground, varied by undulations, with gravelly hills, rising above valleys filled with clay, and both alike favourable to the growth of woods. Fossils of belemnite, cockles (cardium), and lamp-shells (terebratula) have been found in the chalk, and numerous echini, with the pentagon star on their base, are picked up in the gravels and called by the country people Shepherds' Crowns—or even fossil toads. Large boulder ...
— John Keble's Parishes • Charlotte M Yonge
... tertiary species. Some few are of species common to the inferior white chalk, among which may be mentioned Belemnitella mucronata (Figure 226) and Pecten quadricostatus, a shell regarded by many as a mere variety of Pecten quinquecostatus (see Figure 270). Besides the Belemnite there are other genera, such as Baculites and Hamites, never found in strata newer than the cretaceous, but frequently met with in these Maestricht beds. On the other hand, Voluta, Fasciolaria, and other genera of univalve ...
— The Student's Elements of Geology • Sir Charles Lyell |
