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
The sides are rounded, without any appearance of serratures;
thickened near the tip, and more compressed near the base.
20. Tooth of a squalus, something like that of _S. galeus_,
but less of a triangular form, and the lateral processes are
more distinct, and also less triangular than in that species.
21. An imperfect body of a crinoid animal, _encrinite_ of
authors; the fragment is about one-half of the inferior
portion of the body, from which the following description is
made out, taking into view the whole circumference. The plates
composing the _first costal_ series (Miller), five in number,
are longitudinally pentangular, much curved inwards towards
the base, to join the _first columnar joint_, or perhaps the
_pelvis_; at which part the plate is narrow, being about
one-ninth of an inch, whilst the other sides are nearly
three-tenths of an inch each, the superior ones being somewhat
longer than the others; the _second costal plates_, (Miller,)
five in number, are transversely pentangular, the superior
joint being long, the lateral ones shortest, the former being
one-half an inch in length, the latter 3/20, and the inferior
sides which articulate to the segments of the pelvis, somewhat
less than 3/10 of an inch; the margins of the first costal
joints, as well as the superior margins of the segments of the
pelvis, are armed with a few tubercles, some of which seem to
have been perforated; all the superior pieces are wanting in
our specimen, but the truncated surface, on which the
_scapulars_ (Miller) rested, is of a pentagonal outline, and
composed of a series of horizontal equilateral triangles, two
to each side, which are separated on each side from the
adjacent pairs by a deep groove, which corresponds, and is
nearly at right angles with the exterior sutures, which join
the first costal joints to each other; these triangular
surfaces are also separated from the exterior edge by two
grooves, which are crenated, and enclose an oblong foramina
between them; a single _intercostal plate_ occurs, interposed
between two of the _second costals_; it is of an oblong
hexagonal form, its base resting upon the extremity of a
segment of the _first costals_, which is truncated to receive
it; the superior portion of this plate is much bent inward
towards the abdominal cavity; its tip is quadrate and concave.
The whole exterior surface of this reliquium, with the
exception of the tubercles, and sutural impressed lines, is
plain and equable.
If we have not mistaken the pieces of this imperfect specimen,
the pelvis is wanting, but the cavity in which it existed must
have been about 3/20 of an inch in diameter.
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