Contributions to British palæontology : or, First descriptions of three hundred and sixty species and several genera of fossil Radiata, Articulata, Mollusca, and Pisces from the Tertiary, Cretaceous, Oolitic, and Palæozoic strata of Great Britain. . he most ample materialsexist in metropolitan collections which will be at his Morris, in the preface to his Catalogue, mentions in the ca-binet of Mr. Bowerbank alone, the perfectly astonishing numberof twenty to thirty species from this formation. Upwards of adozen beautifully perfect specimens of this species were mostobligingly sent
Contributions to British palæontology : or, First descriptions of three hundred and sixty species and several genera of fossil Radiata, Articulata, Mollusca, and Pisces from the Tertiary, Cretaceous, Oolitic, and Palæozoic strata of Great Britain. . he most ample materialsexist in metropolitan collections which will be at his Morris, in the preface to his Catalogue, mentions in the ca-binet of Mr. Bowerbank alone, the perfectly astonishing numberof twenty to thirty species from this formation. Upwards of adozen beautifully perfect specimens of this species were mostobligingly sent me by Mr. Wetherell, on our mutual friend mentioning that I was about describing the species fromthe Cambridge specimens, but was very anxious to render myspecific description complete by the inspection of more perfectspecimens. Mr. Bowerbank also lent me charming specimenswith the same object. Common in the London clay of Sheppey, Hampstead, Bays-water, Primrose Hill, &c. (Col University of Cambridge, Mr. Bowerbank, Mr. Wetherell, CRUSTACEA. 135 Enoploclytia (M^Coy), n. g. Etyra. eVoTrXo?, armatus, and Clytia. Gen, Char, Carapace fusiform, back rounded, sides convex,gently compressed, posterior end slightly narrowed and deeply. Enoploclytia, notched for the insertion of the abdomen, much contractedanteriorly, the front extended into a long, sharp-pointed de-pressed rostrum, the sides of which are armed with three orfour strong spines; one strong spine over the upper externalangle of the orbit; eyes on short, thick peduncles; nuchalfurrow strong, slightly arched backwards, the ends reachingeach side margin at a point deeply notched by the abrupt nar-rowing of the margin from thence to the front; branchial fur-rows double, inclosing between them a narrow, pointed ridge oneach side, which meets its opposite fellow at less than a rightangle (each meets the midline of the back at an angle of about40°) on a point of the back about halfway between the nuchalfurrow and th
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