Word: silurian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...combat with giant squids have been found on the hides of whales. Largest of known insects, extinct for 170,000,000 years, had a wingspread of 2 ft. 6 in. Largest of known arthropods was Pterygotus, 9 ft. long, which faintly resembled a lobster and roamed on the Silurian sea bottoms of 350,000,000 years...
Available evidence previous to this find indicated that plant life emerged from the water first in the Uppermost Silurian period, almost 300,000,000 years...
...model of a Neanderthal skull or $2.50, a series of models illustrating seven stages in human embryology for $75, an ichthyosaurus paddle for $15, a nearly complete ichthyosaurus skeleton for $300. A 300,000,000-year-old trilobite may cost as little as 50?, a collection of small Silurian fossils 65?. Princeton University recently ordered a cat skeleton, Columbia University 25 Ib. of lead ore, the University of Illinois 18 bullfrog skeletons. A man in Jamaica who had failed in business four times and felt the need of a magic talisman wrote for "the head of a white weasel...
...decided it was white coral, sent it to university geologists who confirmed his opinion. Divers were sent to survey Lake Michigan's coral reef. It parallels the shore for 1,500 ft., is flat on top, evidently shaved off by Pleistocene glaciers. Mr. Glasgow ascribed it to the Silurian period-400,000,000 years ago. At that time the U. S. Midwest was covered by a broad bay of the ocean reaching up from what is now Central America, as numberless marine fossils found in the region testify. Lake Michigan's coral is the farthest north ever found...