A manual of the Mollusca, or, A rudimentary treatise of recent and fossil shells . ntlefree aU round; fins large, medio-dorsal(much larger than in fig. 33). Fossil in the Oxford clay of Chippen-ham. Similar horny claws have been foundin the lias of Watchctt; and ^ guard equallythin is figm-ed in Bucklands BridgewaterTreatise, t. 44, fig. 14. Irf the fossil calamary of Chippenham,the sheU is preserved along with the mus-cular mantle, fins, ink-bag, funnel, eyes,and tentacles with their horny hooks ; allthe specimens were discovered, and deve-loped with miexamplcd skill, by William Buv, of Sutto
A manual of the Mollusca, or, A rudimentary treatise of recent and fossil shells . ntlefree aU round; fins large, medio-dorsal(much larger than in fig. 33). Fossil in the Oxford clay of Chippen-ham. Similar horny claws have been foundin the lias of Watchctt; and ^ guard equallythin is figm-ed in Bucklands BridgewaterTreatise, t. 44, fig. 14. Irf the fossil calamary of Chippenham,the sheU is preserved along with the mus-cular mantle, fins, ink-bag, funnel, eyes,and tentacles with their horny hooks ; allthe specimens were discovered, and deve-loped with miexamplcd skill, by William Buv, of Sutton, near Chii)penham. „. „ , ,,. ^ ^^ Fig. 33. Bd,;mnoieuthis* * Fig. 33. Belemnoteuthis mitiquus, \, ventral side, from a specimen in the cabinetof William Cunnington, Esq., of Devizes. The last chamber of the phragraocone ispreserved in this specimen, a, represents the dorsal side of an uncompressed phragmocone from the Kelloway rock, in the cabinet of J. G. Lov/e, Esq.; c, is an ideal sec-tion of the same. Since this woodcut was executed, a more complete specimen has E :i. 76 MANUAL OF THE MOLLUSCA. CONOTEUTHIS, , C. Dupinianus, DOrb. PI, II., fig. 9. Neocomian, slightly cuived. Pen elongated, veiy shell, which is like the pen of an ommastrephe, with a chamberedeone, connects the ordinary calamaries with the belemnites. FAMILY V. Sepiad^.Shell (cuttle-bone or seplostaire) calcarious ; consisting of a broad lami-nated plate, terminating behind in a hollow, imperfectly chambered apex{mucro). Atiimal with elongated tentacles, expanded at their ends. Sepia (Pliny), Liimseiis. Type, S. officinaHs, L. PL I., fig. 5. Syn., helosepia, Yoltz. (B. sepioidea, pi. II., fig. 3, mucro only.) Body oblong, Avith lateral fins as long as itself. Arms with 4 rows ofsuckers. Mantle supported by tubercles fitting into sockets on the neck andfimnel. Length 3 to 28 inches. Shell as \\ide and long as the body; very thick in front, concave internallybehind
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