"Entomostracan" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... cellular, and resembles some lacustrine limestones of France and Germany. It has been traced for 30 miles in a straight line, and can be recognised at still more distant points. The characteristic fossils are a small bivalve, having the form of a Cyclas or Cyrena, also a small entomostracan, Cythere inflata (Figure 432), and the microscopic shell of an annelid of an extinct genus called Microconchus (Figure 431), allied to Spirorbis. In the coal-field of Yorkshire there are fresh-water strata, some of ...
— The Student's Elements of Geology • Sir Charles Lyell |
