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A subdivision in the lower Silurian system of America; -- so named from Trenton Falls, in New York. The rocks are mostly limestones, and the period is divided into the Trenton, Utica, and Cincinnati epochs. See the Chart of Geology.
A subdivision of the Niagara period in the American upper Silurian, characterized by the formations known as the Oneida conglomerate, and the Medina sandstone. See the Chart of Geology.
Any marine siluroid fish, as Aelurichthys marinus, and Arinus felis, of the eastern coast of the United States. Many species are found on the coasts of Central and South America.
The period in which the American Upper Silurian system, containing the brine-producing rocks of central New York, was formed. See the Chart of Geology.
The middle subdivision of the Upper Silurian in Great Britain; -- so named from the typical locality in Shropshire.
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Any fish of the family Siluridae or of the order Siluroidei.
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A kind of laminated shale or sandstone belonging to some of the layers of the Upper Silurian.
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Belonging to the Siluroidei, or Nematognathi, an order of fishes including numerous species, among which are the American catfishes and numerous allied fresh-water species of the Old World, as the sheatfish (Silurus glanis) of Europe.
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Of or pertaining to the country of the ancient Silures; -- a term applied to the earliest of the Paleozoic eras, and also to the strata of the era, because most plainly developed in that country.
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A genus of Lower Silurian trilobites in which the glabella and cheeks form three rounded elevations on the head.
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A genus of large malacopterygious fishes of the order Siluroidei. They inhabit the inland waters of Europe and Asia.
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Designating, or pertaining to, the series of rocks forming the Taconic mountains in Western New England. They were once supposed to be older than the Cambrian, but later proved to belong to the Lower Silurian and Cambrian.
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A siluroid fish.
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The Silurian age.
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Any one of numerous species of extinct arthropods belonging to the order Trilobita. Trilobites were very common in the Silurian and Devonian periods, but became extinct at the close of the Paleozoic. So named from the three lobes usually seen on each segment.
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A European siluroid fish (Silurus glanis) allied to the cat-fishes. It is the largest fresh-water fish of Europe, sometimes becoming six feet or more in length. See Siluroid.
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A fossil coral of the genus Heliolites, having twelve-rayed cells. It is found in the Silurian rocks.
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Of, pertaining to, or designating, a subdivision of the Trenton Period of the Lower Silurian, characterized in the State of New York by beds of shale.
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A fish of the genus Silurus, as the sheatfish; a siluroid.
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An order of fishes, the Nematognathi.
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