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
23. _Productus compressus_, SAY.--Shell much compressed, with
numerous acute striæ, upwards of fifty in number on each
valve, the alternate ones rather smaller; a very slight
central longitudinal indentation on the convex valve; outline
suborbicular; hinge edge rectilinear, shorter than the
greatest breadth of the shell.
Greatest breadth from 3/5 to 1 inch. In its proportions it
resembles the truncated portion of the productus of Martin, as
represented on his plate 22. fig. 3. It is very common.
24. A shell of the length and breadth of three inches
sometimes occurs, the convex valve of which is transversely
undulated, its umbo prominent, and curved like that of a
gryphæa, its tip resting on the base of the opposite valve
which is concave, with a transverse linear base; its muscular
impressions seem to have been lateral.
25. A single specimen was found of a valve of a shell, in some
degree resembling a pecten, but without the auricles. Length
more than 2-3/10 inches.
26. _Productus lineolatus_, SAY.--Valves with numerous, fine,
equal, equidistant, longitudinal striæ, and a few small
tubercles; convex valve very much elongated, its basal portion
is curved downwards, almost perpendicularly with respect to
the disk near the umbones.
So singular is the structure of this shell, that the internal
cavity appears to have been perfectly transverse, with respect
to the general length of the shell, and small in comparison
with the length. It strongly resembles the anomites productus
of Martin, as represented on plate 22. fig. 102. of his
Petrif. Derbi., and like that shell it is armed with small
tubercles, though fewer in number, and the striæ are much more
numerous and smaller.
27. Cast of a turretted univalve, probably a cerithium, of the
length of 2-1/2 inches.
28. Cast of the anterior portion of a valve of a shell like an
ostrea, of the breadth of 2-1/2 inches.
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