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Definition of Genus chimaera
1. Noun. Type genus of the Chimaeridae.
Group relationships: Chimaeridae, Family Chimaeridae
Member holonyms: Chimaera
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Chimaera
Literary usage of Genus chimaera
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Geology and Mineralogy Considered with Reference to Natural Theology by William Buckland (1837)
"1836, the author has published a notice of his recent discovery of the jaws of
four extinct species of fossil fishes of the genus Chimaera, a genus hitherto ..."
2. Text-book of Paleontology by Karl Alfred von Zittel (1902)
"... have been identified from the Cretaceous of Amuri Bluff, New Zealand; of the
existing genus Chimaera, Linn., from the Upper Tertiary of Europe and Java. ..."
3. Footprints of the Creator: Or the Asterolepis of Stromness by Hugh Miller (1872)
"... if we except the genus chimaera, which does not appear in geologic history
until after the commencement of the Secondary ages, the scapular arch is ..."
4. Reports of Explorations and Surveys, to Ascertain the Most Practicable and by Joseph Henry, Spencer Fullerton Baird, United States War Dept, United States Army. Corps of Engineers (1855)
"The genus Chimaera includes, so far, two species, one in the Atlantic, the other
in the Pacific ocean. The Atlantic species is exclusively an Arctic fish ..."
5. Figures and Descriptions Illustrative of British Organic Remains by Geological Survey of Great Britain (1878)
"... beaks described by Dr. Buckland and placed by him in the genus Chimaera.
The following are the characters which he gave to distinguish it from ..."
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