James's Account of S. H. Long's Expedition, 1819-1820, part 1James, Edwin
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James's Account of S. H. Long's Expedition, 1819-1820, part 1
James, Edwin
Indians of North America; Rocky Mountains; United States -- Discovery and exploration; West (U.S.) -- Description and travel
3. A fragment of a terebratula or productus, imbedded, with
very long spines, which may possibly be the same with the
above.
4. A specimen, being a mass of comminuted fragments of shells,
amongst which are only recognizable a few segments of the
column of the encrinus, and minute turretted univalves of five
whirls, which resemble turritella, and are about one-twentieth
of an inch long.
5. _Millepora cylindrica_, SAY.--Branched, cylindric; _pores_
very regular, alternate, oval, placed nearer to each other
than the length of their own transverse diameters, and
resembling those of an _alveolite_.
Diameter, about one-tenth of an inch.
6. Segments of the column of encrinus of authors, of a
pentangular form.
7. Ossiculæ of the body of a crinoid animal of the analogous
species to No. 21.
8. Fragment of Perna?
9. A mass of argillaceous sandstone, containing spines of a
Linnæan echinus, belonging probably to the genus cidarites
of Lamarck. Of these spines some are elongate-conic, others
slightly fusiform, obtuse and slightly dilated near the
tip, both are armed with short asperities throughout their
length. They resemble in some degree those of the _cidarites
pistillaris_ of Lamarck, but they are smaller, less fusiform,
and the asperities are not prominent.
In the same mass are segments of encrinus, and fragments of the
retepore.
10. Retepore, much resembling the _milleporites flustriformis_
of Martin, Petrif. Derbi. pl. 43. fig. 1 and 2., but the
alveoles in our specimens are rather smaller.
11. _Millepora cylindrica_, SAY.--Of the diameter of half an
inch.
12. _Productus subserratus_, SAY.--Shell transverse, convex
valve semicircular, destitute of asperities or striæ,
longitudinally indented in the middle; line of the hinge
rectilinear, half as long again as the length of the shell, with
three or four spines or serratures on each side towards the
angle; _umbo_ not prominent; the beak hardly prominent beyond
the line of the hinge. Length, more than three-tenths; breadth,
more than half an inch. A large specimen was four-fifths of an
inch wide.
If we except the beak, the outline of this shell, as respects
the hinge margin and the sides, considerably resembles that of
P. _spinulosus_ of Sowerby, but the base is far more obtusely
rounded, and it is a shorter shell comparatively with its
width. The serratures are very often broken off. The curvature
of the sides does not in the slightest degree project beyond
the angles of the hinge line.
13. An imperfect cast, very like the _terebratula subundata_
of Sowerby, and of equal magnitude.
14. Pentagonal ossiculæ of the trunk of encrinus of authors,
which in outline may be compared to figs. 61 and 62, of plate
13. vol. 2. of Parkinson's Organic Remains, but their surfaces
do not now exhibit any sculpture.
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