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I know that Cuvier and Blumenbach have recognised in these bones nothing more remarkable than the bones of the mammoth and other mammals of the post-tertiary period.
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No doubt in the post-tertiary period considerable commotions were still disturbing the crust of the earth.
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So, then, the dream in which I had had a vision of the prehistoric world, of the tertiary and post-tertiary periods, was now realised.
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Exactly the same thing is found by geology in its tertiary and post-tertiary strata: nowhere a mammal, but gigantic birds with rudimentary {70} wings, down to the dinornis, which probably died out in man's time.
The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality Rudolf Schmid
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At the Museum of La Plata I found that the authorities were practically a unit in regarding his remains of tertiary men and proto-men as being either the remains of tertiary American monkeys or of American Indians from strata that were long post-tertiary.
Appendix A. The Work of the Field Zoologist and Field Geographer in South America 1914
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What an all-absorbing post-tertiary deposit for future generations, for the crafty antiquarian who deciphers the history of mankind out of kitchen-middens and deformed heaps of forgotten trash!
Old Calabria Norman Douglas 1910
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On this Sunday morning he offered a simple evangelical discourse, enhanced by those occasional references to palæozoic and post-tertiary periods which were expected from him, and which he had enough of the wisdom of the serpent to supply.
Leonora Arnold Bennett 1899
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American Indians from strata that were long post-tertiary.
Through the Brazilian Wilderness Theodore Roosevelt 1888
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Cuvier and Blumenbach have recognised in these bones nothing more remarkable than the bones of the mammoth and other mammals of the post-tertiary period.
A Journey to the Interior of the Earth Jules Verne 1866
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No doubt in the post-tertiary period considerable commotions were still disturbing the crust of the earth.
A Journey to the Interior of the Earth Jules Verne 1866
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