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III.—On some Life Zones in the Lower Palæozoic Rocks of the British Areas, as defined mainly by Researches during the Past 30 Years

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

Henry Hicks
Henry Hicks
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Lower Cambrian
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Up to the year 1867 the only traces of organisms that had been found in the beds then classed as Cambrian by the Geological Survey (now Lower and part of Middle Cambrian of most authors) were tracks and burrows of Annelids; and the doubtful Trilobite Palæopyge found by Mr. Salterinthe Longmynd rocks of Shropshire.in“Siluria”, fourth edition, 1867, p. 30, Sir R. Murchison refers to them as follows: “These, then, are the only signs of former life we have yet become acquainted with after the most assiduous researches in the Cambrian deposits of such vast dimensions, which are often, I repeat, less altered than much younger rocks replete with organic remains”

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Geological Magazine , Volume 1 , Issue 9 , September 1894 , pp. 399 - 405
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1894

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