Evening Star Newspaper, August 20, 1931, Page 12

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, Only One to a Customer A Few Doors South of F Bt. STONE | Yale Professor Unable to Ac- New Lot of Genuine | han Time. GLADSTONE BAGS at $0).00 BY THOMAS R. HENRY. TLost—150,000,000 years. | This vast aeon—known to geologists | | as Lipalian time—appears to have drop- | | ped cempletely out of history, according i ice i | to Prof. Charles Schuchert of Yale Uni- This price is far below regu- W) (0 h LM S st ued by the lar value, a great bargain for M| yNational Research Council you. | Bearch the world over has failed to | reveal the slightest clue to the errant | millenniums during which wgre taking G. W. KI G, JR. | place some of the most omentous | events in the history of life on esrth N.W. | The pages of rock on which the long 511 11th N.W. | story of life was written before man be- gan to record events seem to have been torn out and thrown away for this period. The record of time, Prof. Schuchert | explains, runs back in fairly good order | through the period known as Cambrian time aboyt 500,000,000 years ago. Then there was abundant life in the great oceans. Many of the creatures had Plano Manufactarers hard shells. They died, sank to the bottom, and were buried in the mud. ‘actor Your Home | Through the millenniums the seas dis- F y to Y our H | appeared, the bottom mud became rock BRAND NEW and was raised up into mountains Fossils In Rock. The fossils of the sea creatures were | imbedded in the rock, so that geologists | today know what they looked like and A $750 Value | what families they belonged to. Some | of them were relatively enormous crea- | tures, measuring from 6 to 8 inches | They represent practically all the major ‘dlfislons of the animal kingiom now found in the seas except those with backbones such as fishes, mammals and reptiles. Seen in a museum exhibit today, these lords of creation a half billion years ago look like yery primitive crea- tures. But they are probably closer to | the highest developed forms of life to- | day than to the most complex forms | which preceded them and of which | there is record. Just behind them lie the lost millenniums during which ani- mal life was beginning to take on the evolutionary processes which resulted in the mammals of many millions of years ter. | _ In the next oldest known rocks, Prof s Schuchert says, there have been found traces of some primitive sponges, some tiny prefozoa-like creatures known as foraminifera, trails of wormlike crea- tures and of some invertabrate animal. There are also limestone deposits of pe- culiar formation Jald down by tiny plants, the blue-green aigae, who are still busy in American rivers after al- |most a billion years. There also are traces of bacteria. Even some of these were already high in the scale of life, especially the wormlike creatures known as annelids Skeletons Not Used. But, Prof. Schuchert says, “Not one of the known animals had yet learned to use lime for skcletal structures, either external or internal, and this when there must have been present a much diversified mass of invertebrates. We know that the pre-Cambrian seas must have been réplete with lime salts in solution. If any of the animals had used lime, they certainly would have been recovered by this time. This ab- sence of skeletons is all the more aston- ishing_since it would seem that there | must have been an abundance of ani- mals feeding on other animals and on plants.” Now, he points out, it must have taken a very long time for animals to bave learned to make skeletons—either shells or bones. Consequently, the cam- | brian creatures and the crawling worms of the next oldest rocks cannot have | touched each other in time. So he says, “Lipalian time stands for the unrecovered interval during which the marine animals evolved mostly from every small floating and swimming form without exterior skeletons into the much larger and highly diversified life of the | Cambrian. How long Lipalian time lasted can only be guessed at, since we have no guidance at all from radio- | active minerals or from rates of or- ganic evolution. There was no more fundamental evolution during the whole of the paleozoic period (the time of the beginning of life) than is indicated by this interval, and we have guessed its duration to be of the order of 300,- 000,000 years. 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SAMPLE MAILED FREE if you write Resinol, Dept. g Baltimore, Md. evolution of .living creatufres, | chert points out in his re- | t on the possibility of determining | age of the earth from fossils and om the thickness of Tocks laid down | y sedimentation, appears to have gone | on at such s variable rate throughout history that it is a very unreliable guide to elapsed time. Thus certain seashells now living can be traced back practically without change for 400,000, 000 years, and the race shows no signs of degenerating through old_age. On the other hand, snafl shells in_an artificial like created by a time in Wis- consin evolved into a recognizably dif- ferent species in 60 years. On the basis of deposits of sedimen- tary rock, Prof. Schuchert made up & calendar of the earth's age back to the beginning of the Archeozoic area— about 700,000,000 yea Nelson’s Suite to Return. 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