Foot-prints of the Creator, Or, The Asterolepis of Stromness

Agassiz algæ ancient animals appear assertors Asterolepis bear bones Brachiopods brain Carboniferous cartilaginous centre cerebral character Christian Coccosteus Coelacanths coprolites cranial buckler cranium creation creature degradation deposits dermal detected development hypothesis Diplopterus Dipterus division dog-fish dynasty earth evidence exhibited existence fact fins flora formation fossil fucoids furnished Ganoids genera genus geological geologist greatly head higher Holoptychius human hyoid plate ichthyic ichthyolites inches Lamarckian least lignite limbs Limestone Lower Old Red mammals ment Miller miracle molluscs nature occipital occur Oken Old Red Sandstone organization original osseous fishes Osteolepis peculiar period plants portion present principle Professor Pterichthys quadruped race rays reader regarding remarkable represented reptiles resemblance rocks Roderick Murchison scale scientific shagreen Sharks Silurian skeleton skull species specimens Spinax spines style surface tail teeth Thurso tion upper vegetation vertebral vertebral column vertebrata Vestiges