Shells declared to be fifteen million years old have been discovered in the mar] pits of this town by Prof. John H. Ruckman, Federal geologist and engineer, The discoveries, it is said, give Manton the greatest range of such speci-mons in the world, extending from the period when shellfish represented the only animate life until the epoch which probably directly preceded the appearance of man.
Giant lizards and huge animals long extinct are among the speciments which have been unearthed from marl deposits in this district. The most recent discoveries of Prof. Ruckman, it is said, upset the calculations of the age of the marl deposits in New Jersey, and are believed to be the oldest remains of prehistoric life on earth.—Reuter.
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