Meanings of extinct forms in English

Have not some Australian extinct forms been lately found in Australia?

The platyrrhine and catarrhine monkeys have their primitive ancestor among extinct forms of the Lemuridae.

They all have one thing in common: the extinct forms are larger than the modern forms.

Modern man is larger than the extinct forms.

One would not need to consider the number of extinct forms as large as is now done.

The extinct forms of life are very similar to those now existing and there is nothing specially embryonic about them.

If many extinct forms were to be discovered above one of the middle horizontal lines or geological formations-forinstance, above No.

Thanks to this three-year, Internet based, scholarly matriculation of mine, I am now the world's leading authority on extinct forms of media.

I am delighted to see how exactly I agree with him on affinities, and especially on extinct forms as illustrated by his flat-topped tree.

Hence it is that existing species during the early stages of their development so often resemble ancient and extinct forms belonging to the same class.

Extinct forms are seldom directly intermediate between existing forms; but are intermediate only by a long and circuitous course through other extinct and different forms.