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Figure 9.3 Typical nineteenth-century stratigraphical chart showing
diagnostic fossils for each geological period (from E. Clodd, Story of
Creation (1896), facing p. 32).
deer family and is not related at all to the familiar North American
animal.
ACQUISITIONOF FURTHER BIOSTRATIGRAPHICAL DATA
From the middle of the nineteenth century many papers that docu-
mented the variety and distribution of fossils had already appeared in
