20 000 Leagues under the Sea 53,
129
Adhémar, Joseph Alphonse 204
Aldabrachelys gigantea 206–
8
Archduke Franz Ferdinand 195
Argonaut (Greek hero) 53,
60
Argonauts, The (radio programme) 112
arthropod 14,
15,
21–
4,
32–
4,
37–
42,
44,
45,
58,
60–
2,
71,
73,
81,
115,
152,
158,
159,
175,
178–
80,
213
Australia xi,
35,
77,
101,
127,
132,
145,
191,
218,
220,
229,
231,
255,
258
Australian National University 212
bacteria, Gram-negative 176
bandages (of graptolite) 58
bilaterian animal 5,
6,
15
bird xi,
61,
69,
81,
85,
91,
92,
101,
177,
180,
181,
185–
93,
207
bivalve mollusc 23,
45,
46,
48,
49,
131,
141,
143,
144,
196,
202,
203,
221,
233,
261
brachiopod 11,
15,
16,
26–
8,
32,
45,
46,
65,
67,
68,
131,
146,
261
Brady, George Stewardson 157–
9
Brady, Henry Bowman 157–
9
British Association for the Advancement of Science 62,
250
British Geological Survey 217
Cabinet of Natural History Curiosities 182
Calcidiscus leptoporus quadriperforatus 170
calcium carbonate 4,
14,
29,
45–
8,
50,
71,
131,
135,
140,
155,
163,
171,
201,
210,
212,
257,
260
‘Cambrian eruption’ 11,
12,
20
Cambrian 1,
2,
5,
8,
9,
11,
13–
18,
20,
26–
32,
37,
38,
40–
2,
58,
59,
61,
64,
66,
67,
81,
101,
103,
111,
147,
148,
154,
160,
162,
178,
179,
208,
213,
218,
219,
248,
252,
253,
254
Cambridge University 57,
80
Carboniferous 24,
25,
69,
70,
80–
2,
113–
15,
118,
146,
155,
179,
180,
210,
246
Carcharocles megalodon 72,
73
Carcharadon carcharias 72
Caroline, Princess, of Sicily 53
Carolinites genacinaca 35
cartilage, structure of 71
Central American isthmus 127
Chengjiang Biota 13,
15–
18,
30,
37,
38,
66,
67,
75,
81,
208,
212
Chicken-of-Tomorrow programme 236
China 13,
15–
17,
20,
30,
31,
37,
66,
114,
175,
181,
188,
192,
226,
239
Clydagnathus windsorensis 70
Cobbold, Edgar Stirling 28
Cookson, Isobel Clifton 112
coral xi,
6,
26,
31,
46,
65,
67,
104,
119,
129–
37,
139,
140–
2,
145,
146,
163,
196,
209–
11,
231,
232,
233,
261
crab, Japanese spider 25,
26
Cretaceous 23,
50,
51,
80,
82,
85,
87,
90,
106,
143,
144,
168–
70,
182,
184–
6,
188,
203,
208,
212,
226,
229,
230,
233
crown-of-thorns starfish 136
Crysomallon squamiferum 48
Dalton sunspot minimum 200
Darwin, Charles 1,
6,
8,
9,
11,
19,
103–
5,
107,
125,
133–
7,
147,
156,
160,
162,
189,
234,
235,
248–
50
Day of the Triffids, The 162
Deep Sea Drilling Program 204
Devonian 25,
38,
42,
44,
50,
62–
4,
67,
74,
79,
80,
81,
113,
115,
118,
145,
146,
176,
178–
80,
209–
11
Die Infusionsthierchen as volkommene Organismen 152
dinosaur (non-avian) xii,
10,
22,
23,
26,
60,
61,
80,
82–
6,
92,
93,
96,
126,
141,
182,
186–
9,
191,
225,
226,
227
Downton Castle SandstoneFormation 43
Dresden, State Museum of Mineralogy and Geology 253
duck-billed platypus 92,
93
El Membrillar olistostrome 3
Entelognathus primordialis 76
Epochs of Nature, The 114
Europe 25,
97,
100,
101,
114,
143,
199,
200,
201,
211,
217,
218,
231,
236,
253
fish 42,
43,
61,
62,
64,
65,
66,
68,
71,
74,
76,
77,
135,
181,
182,
185,
186,
192,
224,
228
foraminifera 22,
125,
142,
147,
153–
8,
165,
166,
169,
171,
201–
3,
205,
207,
209,
233,
249,
250
foraminifera, agglutinated 241
Frankenstein: Or, the Modern Prometheus 234
Frankenstein’s monster 234,
238
Freycinet, Henri-Louis de Saulces de 255
Friedrich Wilhelm III 170
Geological Society (of London) 219
Geological Survey of Canada 248,
249
Geological Survey of Great Britain 88
German invasion of Poland 195
gibbon, Mueller’s Bornean 96
Gigantocarinus szatmanyi 44
Globigerinoides sacculifer 160
Godwin, Mary Wollstonecraft (= Mary Shelley) 234
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von 166
Goldfuss, Georg August 152
Grant, General Ulysses 108
Great Barrier Reef (Devonian) 145
Great Fire of London 51,
151
Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event (GOBE) 213,
214
Green River Formation 192
Helechosa de los Montes 3
Hiroshima atomic bomb 225
Hugh de Saint-Cher, Cardinal 150
human 33,
50,
60,
69,
72,
78,
82,
92,
94–
102,
126,
191,
192,
206,
222,
229,
237–
41
Humboldt, Alexander von 156,
166
hydrothermal conditions 164
Industrial Revolution 114
Inoceramus steenstrupi 23
Jansen, Zacharias and Hans 150
Jason (Greek hero) 53,
60
Johannes Gutenberg University 198
Jurassic 46,
51,
85,
88,
140,
143,
167,
182,
184–
6,
192,
208,
226
Kalkowsky, Ernst Louis 253–
5
Kirk, Captain James T. 164
Kunstformen der Natur 167
Lake District, English 217
Le Clerc, Captain Francis 239
Leicester, city council 222
Leicester, University of 222
Leeuwenhoek, Antonie von 150–
3
limestone, nummulitic 142
locust, Rocky Mountain 177
Lossiemouth Sandstone 186
lunar month, Devonian 211
malleus (ear bone) 75,
93
mammal 12,
61,
76,
81,
84,
92,
93,
96,
101,
180,
181,
186,
191,
192,
226–
8
mantle (of mollusc) 47,
50
Maotianoascus octonarius 17
Maotianshania cylindrica 16
mass extinction event 40,
41,
84,
85,
87,
91,
106,
142,
144,
188,
214,
225,
229
Maunder sunspot minimum 200
McGill University, Montreal 249
Megaloprepus caerulatus 180
Midland Valley, of Scotland 219
Micropalaeontological Society 158
Midland Valley of Scotland 64
Miller-Urey experiment 202
Ming (Chinese dynasty) 198
Minutoli, Heinrich von 170,
171
Missarszhevsky, Vladimir 27
Mohs scale of hardness 71
mollusc 16,
23,
27,
31,
32,
45–
50,
53,
59,
196,
197,
233
Monceau, Henri-Louis Duhamel du 221
Murchison, Roderick 62,
218
Myllokunmingia fengjiaoia 66
Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology 14
National Oceanographic Centre 157
Neogloboquadrina pachyderma 160
North America xi,
25,
35,
114,
121,
143,
157,
190,
191,
197,
199–
201,
211,
217–
19
Old Red Sandstone continent 64
Ordovician 28,
35,
37,
49,
55,
64,
65,
67,
106,
111,
112,
208,
211–
13,
218,
219
Pacific Ocean 46,
127,
129,
132,
133,
155,
157,
200,
205,
210,
231,
255
Palaeozoic 9,
35,
37,
45,
65,
68,
76,
118,
144–
7,
171,
211,
218
Paradoxides paradoxissimus 10
Passat-staub und Blut-regen 124
Permian 50,
82,
84,
90,
92,
97,
106,
144,
155,
211,
220
Peysonnel, Jean-André 129,
130
Philpott, Elizabeth 87,
88
Pneumodesmus newmani 41,
42
Precambrian 1,
3,
4,
5,
11,
19,
20,
26–
8,
41,
49,
118,
154,
162,
165,
196,
211,
213,
217,
218,
233,
247,
249,
252,
253,
256,
257
Pre-Columbian cultures 231
Pterodactylus antiquus 183
Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 250
Queen Alexandra Range 220
Réamur, René-Antoine Ferchault de 130
reef, non-coral-dominated 145–
7
Richard the Lionheart 124
Royal Society of British Sculptors 158
scanning electron microscope 57
Sequoiadendrum giganteum 108
shark, great white 23,
72
Shelley, Percy Bysshe 234
Sherman, General William Tecumseh 108
Siebold, Carl Theodor Ernst von 152
silica 4,
48,
55,
125,
145,
163–
8,
178,
212,
257,
259,
260
Silurian 25,
28,
36,
42,
43,
55,
56,
64,
67,
74,
75–
7,
81,
112,
118,
165,
217,
218
small carbonaceous fossils 31
small shelly fossils (SSFs) 9,
11,
27,
28
Smithsonian Institution 13,
254
Smithsonian Museum of Natural History 72,
73
Southern Uplands, Scotland 55,
217
South Wales coalfield 248
spider 23,
26,
33,
34,
37,
42,
44,
151,
175,
176,
180
Suleiman the Magnificent 198
Tableau méthodique de la classe des Céphalopodes 154
Theodore, Charles, Elector of Bavaria 182
thin section (of rock) 178
third metacarpal styloid process 100
Thomson, Charles Wyville 157
tibiotarsus, of chicken 236
Transantactic Mountains 220
trepan (sea cucumber) 102
Triassic-Jurassic boundary 80,
81,
85
trilobite 1,
6,
9–
11,
13,
15,
19,
34,
35,
36–
8,
40,
41,
44,
65,
67,
144,
218
Turner, Joseph MallordWilliam 199
unconformity, geological 218
United States Geological Survey 254
Vargula hilgendorfii 39,
159
vertebrate 11,
22,
33,
42,
44,
59,
61,
62,
64,
66,
67,
69,
71,
73,
78,
81,
85,
87,
90,
92,
94,
95,
101,
167,
181,
192,
212,
228,
237
vertebrate, ancestral 66,
74
Villepreux-Power, Jeanne 52,
53,
54
volcano, ocean island 139
Wallace, Alfred Russel 104,
156
World Foraminifera Database 155
Wren, Sir Christopher 51,
151
Wrisberg, Heinrich August 152
‘year without a summer’ 199,
234
Zoological Museum, Kiel 198