nummulites

• “There is a rich invertebrate fauna with thousands of remains, large and small, of nummulites, molluscs, gastropods, bivalves, echinoids and crabs, which, with the remains of plants, permit reconstruction of the ecology and habitat of the animals.”

  Wadi Al-Hitan (Whale Valley), Egypt

• “Oolite found by Durand in a low range, standing by itself in the valley, it generally bears a vast quantity of nummulites and madrepores.”

  Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries

• “They are generally of a coarse breccia, the component parts principally limestone; abundance of nummulites.”

  Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries

• “Durand finds nummulites, but thinks them brought down by the river.”

  Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries

• “Other groups which once played a great _rôle_, are now wholly extinct; for instance, the trilobites of the primary, the sauria of the secondary, the nummulites of the tertiary periods.”

  The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality

• “The Eocene beds are marine and contain nummulites.”

  Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"

• “A part was compact and blue, very crystalline, and full of encrinitic fossils, and probably nummulites, but all were too much altered for determination.”

  Himalayan Journals — Complete

• “The nummulites of the limestone are the only known means we have of forming an approximate estimate of the age of the”

  Himalayan Journals — Complete

• “I was glad to find that you had arranged the nummulites with the tertiary rocks, so that the broad generalization I attempted in my last work on the Alps, Apennines, and Carpathians is completely sustained zoologically, and you will not be sorry to see the stratigraphical truth vindicated (versus E. de Beaumont and --).”

  Louis Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence

• “I may mention in the passing, that some of the most ancient buildings of Egypt are formed of the Tertiary marine limestones of the country; the stones of the pyramids are charged with nummulites, known to the Arabs as "Pharaoh's beans;" and these organisms stand out in high relief on the weathered portions of the Great Sphinx.”

  The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed

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