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Buckland adopted also in the liassic case his actualistic – comparative method to infer a possible behaviour of the extinct animals:

From Scientific American • Mar. 12, 2014

Point Wilkie appears to be an isolated patch of liassic age, resting upon carboniferous sandstones and limestones, with bands of chert, of the same age as the limestones and sandstones of Melville Island.

From In the Arctic Seas A Narrative of the Discovery of the Fate of Sir John Franklin and his Companions by McClintock, Francis Leopold

Soon after this I sketched a new scene for the "Donkey's Skin;" it was one representing the liassic period.

From The Story of a Child by Smith, Caroline F.

Professor Forbes remarks that this fossil resembles several carboniferous limestone Spirifers; and that it is also related to some liassic species, as S. Wolcotii.

From Geological Observations on South America by Darwin, Charles

Brongniart enumerates forty-seven liassic acrogens, most of them ferns; and fifty gymnosperms, of which thirty-nine are cycads, and eleven conifers.

From The Student's Elements of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir