Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 May 2009
The opinion that fossil Radiolarians were entirely limited to Tertiary strata prevailed until a comparatively late period. Prof. Ernst Haeckel, in his monograph on the Radiolaria, published in 1862, says “that the Radiolarians made their appearance for the first time during the Tertiary period”; and Ehrenberg, as late as 1875, defined all the Polycystina-bearing rocks as Tertiary.
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