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One Information Deduced from the Fossils and the Sediment.- 1: Modes of Life.- 2: Constraints on Living Conditions.- 3: Evidence of Biological Activity.- 4: The Sediment.- 5: Sedimentary Environments.- 6: Fossiliferous Horizons.- two Reconstruction of Some Ancient Environments.- 7: The Ediacara Fauna.- 8: The Old Red Sandstone Continent.- 9: The Decazeville Coal Basin.- 10: The Grès à Voltzia Delta.- 11: The Reefs of Hoher Göll.- 12: The Holzmaden Bituminous Shale Sea..- 13: The Solnhofen Lagoon.- 14: The Shores of the Auversian Sea.- 15: The Acheulian Hunters’ Cave at Le Lazaret..- Appendix I: Guide to the Palaeoecological Study of Fossiliferous Horizons.- Appendix II: Table Summarizing the Principal Features of the Environment.- Appendix III: Stratigraphie Position of Some European Fossiliferous Horizons.- References.