Figures and descriptions on Canadian organic remains
By: Decade I-IV.
Contributors: Salter, John William, 1820-1869.; Hall, James, 1811-1898.; Billings, E. 1820-1876.; Jones, T. Rupert 1819-1911.; Thompson, John Vaughan, 1779-1847.
Publisher: Printed by J. Lovell
Published: 1858
Place of publication: Montreal
Language: eng
Subjects: Paleontology -- Canada; Paleontology -- Ordovician; Paleontology -- Silurian
Notes: Decade II has imprint: Montreal, Dawson brothers; London, New York, and Paris, Ballie  re[!]

Each plate accompanied by leaf with descriptive letterpress.
Table of contents: title: decade I. Fossils from the base of the Trenton group, by J. W. Salter. 1859.-decade II. Graptolites of the Quebec group, by James Hall. 1865.-decade III. On the Cystideae of the Lower Silurian rocks of Canada, by E. Billings. On the Asteriadae of the Lower Silurian rocks of Canada, by E. Billings.-0n Cyclocystoides, a new genus of Echinodermata from the Lower and Middle Silurian rocks, by J. W. Salter and E. Billings. On the Palaeozoic bivalve Entomostraca of Canda, by T. R Jones. 1858.-decade IV. On the Crinoideae of the Lower Silurian rocks of Canada, by E. Billings. Memoir on the star-fish of the genus Comatula, demonstrative of the Pentacrinus europaeus, by J. V. Thompson. 1859.