. Bulletin of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences. Natural history -- New York (State); Natural history. 282. fe-4 Genus STYLIOLINA. Karpinsky. [Ety. : Diminutive of the recent genus Styliola.] dss4 : Die fossilen Pteropoden am Ostabhange des Urals. Mem. de l'Acad. St. Petersburg, 7th Ser., T. XXXII., No. 1.) Shells small, needle-shaped, with a circular transverse sec- tion. The apex is solid and usually bulbiform, and the sur- face is smooth, with only fine lines of growth. Styliolixa fissurella. ( Hall.) ( Fig. 214.) ( Pal. X. Y., Vol. Pt. II., p. 178, PL XXXI.) Distinguishing ('hara


. Bulletin of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences. Natural history -- New York (State); Natural history. 282. fe-4 Genus STYLIOLINA. Karpinsky. [Ety. : Diminutive of the recent genus Styliola.] dss4 : Die fossilen Pteropoden am Ostabhange des Urals. Mem. de l'Acad. St. Petersburg, 7th Ser., T. XXXII., No. 1.) Shells small, needle-shaped, with a circular transverse sec- tion. The apex is solid and usually bulbiform, and the sur- face is smooth, with only fine lines of growth. Styliolixa fissurella. ( Hall.) ( Fig. 214.) ( Pal. X. Y., Vol. Pt. II., p. 178, PL XXXI.) Distinguishing ('haracters.— Small size: needle-like form; minute, of- ten bulbiferous, apex; transverse and sometimes longitudinal stria?; sharply depressed central fracture line in all the compressed specimens. Found everywhere in the rocks of this region; especially abundant in the lower Genesee, where these shells make up the Styliolina limestone; also abundant in the Marcellus shale, on the Lake Shore (not observed in the Encrinal limestone). Styliolixa spica. (Hall.) (Fig. 214A.) (Pal. N. Y., Vol. V., Pt. II.; supplement. Vol. VII., p. 7, ) Distinguishing Characters.— Greater size and more robust form than S. fissurelln : ab- sence of indications of annulations or apical node. fig. sua., styiio- Found in the Hamilton shales, at "Ham- linaspica,x 2(after . „ . ,, lt n Haii). burg, Erie County. (Hall.) Genus TFXTACULITES. Schlotheim. I Ety. : Tentaculum, feeler ; Itthos, stone.] (1820 : Schlotheim Petrefactenkunde, p. 337.) Shells straight, elongate, attenuately conical tubes, their surfaces marked by strong rings or annulations, which are Fig. 214. Styliolina fissurella. A fragment of slate with numer- ous individuals, x3, and a speci- men much enlarged (after Hall;.. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the origi


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