A Monograph of the Trilobites of North America: with Coloured Models of the Species — John Shaqi
A Monograph of the Trilobites of North America: with Coloured Models of the SpeciesGreen, Jacob
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A Monograph of the Trilobites of North America: with Coloured Models of the Species
Green, Jacob
Paleontology -- North America; Trilobites -- North America
are remarkable, though they may have been produced by accidental
fissures in the epidermal covering of the animal. The head of the C.
Macrophthalma is always marked by minute and prominent granulations,
like _shagreen_--nothing of this kind appears on the buckler of the C.
Anchiops.
I am informed by my friend, Dr. T. R. Beck, to whose liberality I owe
this interesting species, that it was found in Ulster county, New
York. It was supposed by Dr. Hosack, to have been discovered in the
vicinity of Albany. Respecting the locality and geological relations of
this trilobite, Professor Brongniart remarks, "un modéle en plâtre de
trilobite envoyé à l'Académie des Sciences, en Juillet, 1819, par M.
Hosack, et que j'ai rapporté, autant que la chose était possible, et
toujours avec doute, au calyméne macrophthalme, a été trouvé dans le
territoire d'Albany, êtat de New York. Or, les environs de cette ville
sont indiqués, sur la carte géologique de M. Maclure, comme formés de
terrains de transition. M. Hosack dit qu'il a été trouvé au milieu d'un
rocher ardoisé, c'est à dire, dans un schiste probablement analogue à
celui des environs d'Angers, qui renferme les Ogygies, et ce trilobite
ce rapproche un peu de ce genre par la grosseur des tubercules qui
recouvrent les yeux on en tiennent la place." The rock in which the
Calymene Anchiops is found, appears to be a clay slate.
Calymene Diops.[19] _Green._ Cast No. 8, and fig. 2.
[Footnote 19: From the Greek for "Double Eyes."]
Clypeo lobato plano; rugis tribus in lateribus frontis; tuberculis
oculiformibus, eminentissimis et duplicibus; articulis octodecim;
cauda rotunda.
This species is very distinct from every other Calymene that we have
seen. The outline of the buckler is lobate lunate; the front is very
convex, and a good deal elevated above the cheeks or sides, from
which it is divided by a deep furrow; on the posterior margin of the
front on each side, close to the groove there is a prominent circular
tubercle, before which there are three small transverse wrinkles.
The cheeks are subtriangular; the oculiform tubercle is near the
posterior superior angle, and is only separated from the tubercle on
the front, by the furrow or groove, so that the animal seems to have
had double eyes on each side; there are two curved lines on each side
below the eyes, crossed near the front by a deep short canal. The
middle lobe of the abdomen and tail is rather longer than the lateral
lobes, and is rounded and very prominent throughout. It is composed
of 18 articulations, seven of which appear to belong to the tail; it
is, however, somewhat difficult to define the length of the tail with
precision. The costal arches of the lateral lobes, particularly those
near the tail, are bifurcate. Length almost three inches.
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