"Permian" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... terrestrial tertiary mammals. I say on purpose, 'from the evidence before us,' because, as I shall go on to explain hereafter, I do not myself believe that any one age has much surpassed another in the general size of its fauna, since the Permian Epoch at least; and where we do not get geological evidence of the existence of big animals in any particular deposit, we may take it for granted, I think, that that deposit was laid down under conditions unfavourable to the preservation of the remains of large species. For example, the sediment ...
— Falling in Love - With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science • Grant Allen
... placed in front of the pectoral ones (i.e. jugular fishes) have been generally considered to be comparatively modern forms. But Professor Huxley has kindly informed me that he has discovered a {141} jugular fish in the Permian deposits. ...
— On the Genesis of Species • St. George Mivart |
