"Buccinum" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... several Crag formations are still inhabitants of the British seas; but even these differ considerably in their relative abundance, some of the commonest of the Crag shells being now extremely scarce— as, for example, Buccinum Dalei— while others, rarely met with in a fossil state, are now very common, as Murex erinaceus and Cardium echinatum. Some of the species also, the identity of which with the living would not be disputed by any conchologist, are nevertheless distinguishable ...
— The Student's Elements of Geology • Sir Charles Lyell |
