This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1876 Excerpt: ...the Swiss fauna must necessarily have more species in common with that of the Southern French (or Mediterranean) than with that of the Franco-Britannic sea. And this is actually the case, furnishing an important confirmation of Prof. Heer's assumption that the Swiss Cretaceous sea was separated by land from the Paris ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1876 Excerpt: ...the Swiss fauna must necessarily have more species in common with that of the Southern French (or Mediterranean) than with that of the Franco-Britannic sea. And this is actually the case, furnishing an important confirmation of Prof. Heer's assumption that the Swiss Cretaceous sea was separated by land from the Paris basin. The Swiss Cretaceous sea has about two thirds of its species in common with the Southern French or Mediterranean sea, but scarcely one third with the sea which occupied the middle and north of France and the east of England. If we consider only the Ammonites, we find a similar proportion; three fourths of the Swiss species can be traced into the south of France, whilst only one third is common to the Franco-Britannic area; and the majority of these species occur also in north Germany, so that their distribution may be traced through Germany towards the Swiss sea. Thus we find Ammonites varicosus, Sow., A. inflatus, Sow. (fig. 120), A. Bouchardianus, D'Orb., A. Delaruei, D'Orb., A. varicosus, Sow., A. rhotomagensis, Br., A. mammillatus, Schl. (fig. 119), A. Deluci, Br., A. Raulinianus, D'Orb., A. Renauxianus, D'Orb., A. splendens, Sow., A. Beudanti, Br., A. mayorianus, D'Orb., A. bidichotomus, Leym., and A.Carteroni, D'Orb., in the Paris basin, in England, in North Germany, and on both coasts of the Swiss Cretaceous sea. They are widely distributed species, which also spread into the south-European sea. A much greater number of the Swiss species did not frequent the first-mentioned seas, and can only be traced to the limits of the southern French Cretaceous sea. That sea must, without doubt, have directly communicated with the Swiss Cretaceous sea. A comparison of the two Swiss coast-faunas with those of the neighbouring seas shows that t...
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