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. 1889 Excerpt: ...(Billings, 1859); not the F. hemisphericus described by Edwards and Haime in 1851. (Collett).--Collett's Indiana Report of 1881, page 396, plate 54, fig. 2, under view of a corallum. Indiana Report of 1882, page 257, plate 5, fig. 1, half of the upper side of a corallum to show size and form of corallites. Fig. 2, half ...
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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. 1889 Excerpt: ...(Billings, 1859); not the F. hemisphericus described by Edwards and Haime in 1851. (Collett).--Collett's Indiana Report of 1881, page 396, plate 54, fig. 2, under view of a corallum. Indiana Report of 1882, page 257, plate 5, fig. 1, half of the upper side of a corallum to show size and form of corallites. Fig. 2, half of the lower surface, skin (epitheca) dissolved away, showing the tubes and their partitions (septa).--In the U. S. and Canada common in Upper Helderberg (Corniferous) limestone.--VIIIa. Favosites limitaris. (Calamopora spongites. Goldfuss.)--(Rominger, 1876. Foss. Corals, Corniferous.) So called because lying next to Cladopora. Collett's Indiana Rt. of 1882, page 256, plate 4, fig. 5; specimen with large branches. Fig. 6, more slender, and frequently branching.--In Canada, Michigan, Indiana and Kentucky, Corniferous, VIIIIa. Favosites lycoperdon. See Monticuliporalycoperdon. Favosites lycopodites. Vanuxem. Third District, 1844, page 46, fig. 4,3. Emmons' Second District, 1843, page 389, fig. 99, 3. VaJ). ffijkOs This puff-ball favosite, a mass of small angular cells, side by side, characterises abundantly the Trenton and dies out in the lower Utica. At Frankford, Ky. called Trianisites cliffordii, (Van.)--IIe. Favosites niagarensis. (See Appendix.) Favosites polymorpha. (Goldfuss.) Collett's Indiana Re vnu. 2 Jh 3L page 395, plates 50, fig.l; and 53, figs.'l, 2, 3, -(of which I select a large spe cimen, and a fragment, show i n g the sides of a bun die of corallites.--This coral grew in a great variety of shapes in the Corniferous limestone age. VIIlb. Favosites spinigerus. See Appendix. (Astrocerium venustum. Hall, Pal. 8 N. Y., Vol. 2. Gollett's In Favosites venustus. of 1882, page Favosites P in coral beds, 30' feet below top of L. H...
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