"Teleostean" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... on by palaeontologists of the apparently sudden appearance of a whole group of species, is that of the teleostean fishes, low down in the Chalk period. This group includes the large majority of existing species. Lately, Professor Pictet has carried their existence one sub-stage further back; and some palaeontologists believe that certain {306} much older fishes, of which the affinities ...
— On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection • Charles Darwin |
