#palaeozoic

Chapter heading - 'Développement et progression de la vie' [Development and progression of life] from Camille Flammarion's Le monde avant la création de l'homme (1886), Figuier 1863

"Durant ces millions d'années, les premiers habitants du globe étaient muets, sourds et sans sexe." ["During those millions of years, the first inhabitants of the globe were mute, deaf, and sexless."] from Camille Flammarion's Le monde avant la création de l'homme (1886)

'Early Sheretzim of the waters', from from Nature and the Bible by John William Dawson (1875), after Dawson 1873

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Palaeozoic sea chapter heading from Der vorgeschichtliche Mensch: Ursprung und Entwickelung des Menschengeschlechtes [Prehistoric Man: Origin and Development of Humankind] by Wilhelm Baer and Hermann Schaaffhausen (1872)

"Life in the Silurian Age: On the bottom are seen, proceeding from left to right, Corals (Stenopora and Beatricea) and a Gasteropod; Orthoceras; Coral (Patria); Crinoids, Lingulæ, and Cystideans; a Trilobite and Cyrtolites. In the water is a large Pterygotus, and under it a Trinucleus. Furthere on, are Cephalopods, a Heteropod, and Fishes. At the surface, Phyllograptus, Graptolithus, and Bellerophon. On the Land, Lepidodendron, Psilophyton, and Prototaxites."

From The Story of the Earth and Man by J. W. Dawson, 1873

"Life in the Primordial Sea: On the bottom are seen, proceeding from left to right, Oldhamia antiqua, Lingulæ, Arenicolæ, Oldhamia radiata, Paradoxides, Histioderma, Agnostus, Oldhamia radiata, Algæ, and Lingulæ. In the water are Hymenocaris, different species of Trilobites, and Pteropods."

From The Story of the Earth and Man by J. W. Dawson, 1873