Bulletins of American paleontology . (Fig. 131.)Shell ovate, flattened on theside of the aperture ; outer lipprominent at the apex; marginsof the lips ornamented with plaits, and receding fromeach other, beginning at themost pi-ominent part of the some of tlie mioeeno beds itis quite common, CYPREA PKDIClTLrS. It is a small ovate shell, andtransversely ribbed, and with anarrow groove along the have not yet met with it in themarl beds of this State, thoughit appears to be common in SouthCarolina. MITRA —(Fig. lo2.) Shell fusiform, thick, or elongate, and
Bulletins of American paleontology . (Fig. 131.)Shell ovate, flattened on theside of the aperture ; outer lipprominent at the apex; marginsof the lips ornamented with plaits, and receding fromeach other, beginning at themost pi-ominent part of the some of tlie mioeeno beds itis quite common, CYPREA PKDIClTLrS. It is a small ovate shell, andtransversely ribbed, and with anarrow groove along the have not yet met with it in themarl beds of this State, thoughit appears to be common in SouthCarolina. MITRA —(Fig. lo2.) Shell fusiform, thick, or elongate, and taperingtowards each extremity ; whirls slightly convex,channeled above, and traversed by numerousspiral raised lines ; columella lip, turnished withnumerous oblique plaits, of which the upperone is the strongest; .canal wide and marl of North-Carolina. The shellis often found much larger than the 170 Bulletin 249 NOKTII-CAKOLmA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. 261 MAKGINKLLA OLIVAEFORMIS. POKCELLANA OLIVAEFORMIS I TDOMEY & HOLMES, FOSSILS OF SOUTH-CAROLINA, p. 131.—(Fig- 133.) Shell elongcated, oval; spire profoundly obtuse; aperturelinear; labrum, (or outer lip) tumid^ retiexed, profusely cre-nulated within; colnniella with three raised plaits. With this description, several specimens agree, which Jhave found in the marl beds. It is, however, rare.
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