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... these is therefore of great importance to the geologist. A few widely-dispersed and characteristic species have been here figured (fig. 47); and the following may be considered as the principal Lower Silurian genera—Asaphus, Ogygia, Cheirurus, Ampyx, Caiymene, Trinucleus, Lichas, Illoenus, AEglina, Harpes, Remopleurides, Phacops, Acidaspis, and Homalonotus, a few of them passing upwards under new forms into ... — The Ancient Life History of the Earth • Henry Alleyne Nicholson |