A pictorial atlas of fossil remains, consisting of coloured illustrations selected from Parkinson's "Organic remains of a former world," and Artis's "Antediluvian phytology." . A. 50SSIL FAUNA. 141 PLATE LXI. Fossil Cephalopoda, &c. Fig. 1. Part of the cast of a species of Hamite {Hamites intermedius, of Sowerby), from theGait of Folkstone. The name Hamites was employed by Mr. Parkinson to designatea genus of chambered shells, in which the direction of the spire, instead of beingstraight, as in Baculites, or discoidal, as in Ammonites, was bent like a hook beyondthe inner reflected part. All t
A pictorial atlas of fossil remains, consisting of coloured illustrations selected from Parkinson's "Organic remains of a former world," and Artis's "Antediluvian phytology." . A. 50SSIL FAUNA. 141 PLATE LXI. Fossil Cephalopoda, &c. Fig. 1. Part of the cast of a species of Hamite {Hamites intermedius, of Sowerby), from theGait of Folkstone. The name Hamites was employed by Mr. Parkinson to designatea genus of chambered shells, in which the direction of the spire, instead of beingstraight, as in Baculites, or discoidal, as in Ammonites, was bent like a hook beyondthe inner reflected part. All the specimens here figured are but fragments. Figs. 2, & 5. Portions of Hamites intermedins, of Sowerby. Fig. 3. Hamites plicatilis, of Sowerby. Fig. 4. A fragment of Hamites roiundm, of Sowerby. Figs. 6, & 7. Two views of a species of an extinct genus, the shells of which, though notchambered, are supposed to have been inhabited by Cephalopoda, like the recentArgonaut. The specimen {BelleropJion costatus, of Sowerby) is from the Mountainlimestone of Derbyshire.^ Figs. 8, & 9. An Ammonite with a contracted aperture, and three deep constrictions acrossthe dis
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