Bulletins of American paleontology . ^.. FASCIOLARIA DISTANS. LAM. (Fig. 113.) This shell at first sight appears smooth,but a careful inspection shows that it isfinely striated longitudinally ; its spire iscomposed of six or seven convex or pro-minent whirls, and its pillar has but oneplait. It is a common shell upon the coast,and in the post pleiocene at Beaufort,but not uncommon in the miocene ofCape Fear. FASCIOLARIA ELEGANS.—N. S. (Fig. 114.) Shell elongated, acute; whirls eightrounded, ornamented with wide, andfinely striated ribs; striae transverse tothe ribs, or longitudinal; ribs of th
Bulletins of American paleontology . ^.. FASCIOLARIA DISTANS. LAM. (Fig. 113.) This shell at first sight appears smooth,but a careful inspection shows that it isfinely striated longitudinally ; its spire iscomposed of six or seven convex or pro-minent whirls, and its pillar has but oneplait. It is a common shell upon the coast,and in the post pleiocene at Beaufort,but not uncommon in the miocene ofCape Fear. FASCIOLARIA ELEGANS.—N. S. (Fig. 114.) Shell elongated, acute; whirls eightrounded, ornamented with wide, andfinely striated ribs; striae transverse tothe ribs, or longitudinal; ribs of the bodywhirl, ^bout fifteen, the middle of thebody-whirl upon the outer lip, the fourwidest ribs alternate with three narrowones; plaits three, concealed within thepillar lip; spire longer than the aper-ture. This shell is rare in the miocene ofKorth-Carolina. It would pasa for fususif the pillar lip was not examined justwithin the aperture, the plaits reachingonly to its edge, but they are strong andwell developed through its entire l
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