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
The animal described and figured by Dr. J. Bigsby, to which we have
already referred, seems rather different from our species. His
specimens were found at Montmorenci, near Quebec, (Canada) more than
an inch and a half in diameter. The following are his remarks on this
trilobite.[44] "The front of the buckler is remarkably convex, and has
on each side near the base, three very small transverse lines, scarcely
to be called depressions, corresponding to the sulci so strongly marked
in the genus Calymene. There is frequently, but not universally, a
very minute pisiform process on the centre of the front. The whole
upper edge of the buckler is always surrounded by a very ornamental
semicircular border, sometimes semi-elliptical, of punctures placed in
the meshes of a net-work in high relief and arranged close together,
in rays, passing perpendicularly from the buckler and forming at the
same time when observed transversely, curved lines parallel to its
upper rim or edge, excepting at the sides, where they diverge, leaving
a space occupied by other lines of dottings, parallel to the former,
but speedily terminating on the cheeks of the buckler. The lines which
are complete from side so side, are four in number. The imperfect
additional ones, vary from two to four; the smallest and inner,
consisting only of two or three punctures. A plain edging includes the
semicircle of punctures. In the beds of these casts, the places of
the punctures are shown by small conical elevations, and those of the
ridges of the net-work, by corresponding depressions."
[Footnote 44: See Geology of the Island of Montreal, in Lyceum of Nat.
History, N. Y. p. 214.]
Should this prove to be a distinct species, we propose to call it
_Cryptolithus Bigsbii_.
The _Nuttainia Concentrica_ of Professor Eaton seems also very nearly
allied to this species; he describes it as having "four or five
concentric arcs of punctures in front of the buckler, separated by
alternating arcs of fine elevated ridges." The genus Nuttainia, to
which he refers this species, cannot include it, and the N. Sparsa; for
these two relics have scarcely a single essential character in common;
we have, therefore, confined the genus Nuttainia, to the species which
he calls _Sparsa_.
The Cryptolithus Tessellatus is very common at Trenton falls. In the
transition limestone at Glenn's falls, in the state of New York, during
a very short visit to this place, Dr. R. Harlan procured a large number
of this fossil, but only the buckler, the projecting front of which
exhibited a pisiform protuberance above the level of the strata. Mr.
Eaton says that the N. Concentrica "occurs in the wacke variety of
transition of argillite, on the Champlain canal," between the town of
Waterford and the Mohawk river. The specimen in my cabinet, from which
our cast was made, is from that place.
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