Transactions of the Albany Institute, Tom 4Webster and Skinners, 1864 |
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1st Mortgage adjourned angle angular aperture basal plates beak Bloomington body Carboniferous cardinal centre Centronella characters collection concave convex costæ CRYPTONELLA curve Decimetre depressed distinct dorsal valve Dutchess elevated elongate equal extending extremity forces fossils genus gibbous Hall Hickok hinge line Hough inch incurved J. V. L. Pruyn John John V. L. Pruyn Kansas Kansas river lamellæ length limestone lines of growth lobe locality Locality.-Spergen Hill Major Hawn margin matter measure medal MERISTELLA middle motion Munsell Murray muscular impression Myriametre Niagara group oblique ovate park Permian PETER GANSEVOORT plications posterior Premiums present president Prof pygidium radial plates radius radix rational insight rays read a paper Rensselaer rock rounded Saratoga Schoharie Secretary shell side sinus slightly Society solar space species specimens Spergen Hill spire striæ Surface marked suture TEREBRATULA tion Trans transverse umbilicus upper ventral valve ventricose volutions width yards
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Strona 9 - Dorsal valve smaller, auriculated on the cardinal angles : beak small, scarcely rising above the straight cardinal margin ; area small, triangular, not entirely confined to the larger valve, bounded by a distinct angular margin. SURFACE longitudinally striate, marked by about fifty rounded, beautifully punctate, simple striae. Length, -10 to -32, width 08 to -27 of an inch, usually. Some specimens have a length of three-fourths of an inch.
Strona 140 - AAyris, and, on the other, the same author has placed some of its species under a later created genus Charionella, it seems necessary to repeat some of the characters of the genus in this connexion. Genus MERISTELLA Hall, 1860. — The genus includes terebratuloid or Athyroid forms which are ovoid, more or less elongate, sometimes elliptical in outline, and not unfrequently transverse or sub-circular ; valves unequally convex, with or without a median fold and sinus, and this feature usually confined...