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Antiquity of Man: Nummulites

Nummulites Miliolite limestone of minute Foraminifera.

Nummulites Cerithium, &c. &c.

been fully studied or their exact equivalence remains undetermined.
been fully studied or their exact equivalence remains undetermined.

Nummulites Nerita, &c. &c.

CONTINENT OF EUROPE AND ASIA.

Nummulitic Limestone of the Alps, Carpathians N. Africa Asia Minor Western Thibet.

INDIA.

N. AMERICA.

S.

AMERICA.

East of the West of the Rocky Mts.

Miliolite lime- stone of minute Foraminifera. Nummulites formation of Cutch, portions of the Himalaya, and frontiers of China.

Vicksburg beds [The Marine deposits he Alabama Period Claiborne beds Zeuglodon Soissonnais Sands The Claiborne beds are considered by Lyell as the equivalent of the Middle Eocene of Britain; the parallelism of the other American deposits has not yet been completed.

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