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CONTENTS
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Australia | 35 | ||||
Siluric | 35 | ||||
Upper Siluric | 35 | ||||
Germany | 35 | ||||
Carbonic | 35 | ||||
Middle Saarbrüicker | 35 | ||||
South America | 36 | ||||
Carbonic | 36 | ||||
Coal Measures of Brazil | 36 | ||||
Africa | 36 | ||||
Devonic | 36 | ||||
Witteberg series | 36 | ||||
Portugal | 37 | ||||
Permic | 37 | ||||
Summary Tables | 37 | ||||
Table I. Geological and Geographical Distribution of the Eurypterida throughout the World | 37 | ||||
Table II. Summary of the Geological and Geographical Distribution of the Eurypterida throughout the World | 37 | ||||
Table III. Summary of the Distribution, Facies and Mode of Occurrence of the Eurypterida | 38 | ||||
Synonymy | 50 | ||||
Chapter II. A Résumé of the Opinions on the Habitat of the Eurypterida | 52 | ||||
Chapter III. The Bionomy of the Eurypterid Faunas | 64 | ||||
Introduction | 64 | ||||
Classification of Recent Aqueous Habitats | 65 | ||||
Classification of Aqueous Bionomic Realms According to Salinity | 66 | ||||
Recent Aquatic Faunas | 67 | ||||
Marine | 67 | ||||
Fresh Water | 69 | ||||
Table Showing Number of Genera and Species of Mollusca in Various Bionomic Realms | 69 | ||||
Brackish Water | 70 | ||||
The Baltic Sea | 70 | ||||
Comparative Number of Species of Invertebrates in the Baltic, etc. | 72 | ||||
The Severn Estuary | 73 | ||||
Summary of Faunal Criteria for Determining the Type of an Aqueous Habitat | 76 | ||||
Application to the Past | 77 | ||||
Marine Deposits and Faunas | 78 | ||||
Fluviatile Deposits and Faunas | 79 | ||||
Brackish Water and Estuarine Deposits and Faunas | 83 | ||||
The Eurypterid Faunas and their Associated Organisms | 84 | ||||
Ordovicic | 84 | ||||
Normanskill Fauna | 84 | ||||
Schenectady Fauna | 84 |