Part II - State of New Jersey

16 CltETACEOUS FOSSILSRua(]c otifsi[lo ~Vctc; JerseyhlarylanilType.-Cross!\~icks, I\'. J.; apparently lost; paratypes ANSI' 19Ii:iS;type of G. obtztsiz;oluo, Nelv Jersey; AXSP 15137.Yamily SenophoridaeXenophora leprosa (Morton) 1834Plate 49, Figures 5, 6Tvoelrtis ieprostix Morton, 1834, Syno~. Org. Rent. Cret. Gr. 11. S.: p.4(i:pl. 1.5: fig. 6.Sei~opltera leprosn, \Vliitficl[l, 1692, p. 135, p1.17, figs. 16-19..Ve~iophor.n lop~.osa, TJTcller: 1907,p. 690, pl. 78, figs. 1-3.Xollophoru leproscr, Bardner, 1916: p. 49.5.Sc?~ophora leprosu, Wade, 1926, p. 162, 111. 56, figs. 7-6.Stnophora lcproso, Stephenson, 1941,p. 284,111. 52, figs. 17-19,Se~~opl~or~ leproso, Groot, Organist and Ricliards, 1954, p. 50.I)eseription.-"Sliell small or below a medium size, trochiform, orI~roacl eonieal; the spire ]laving an apical angle of less than 90' ; basoflat or concave, usually nrore or less depressed in the center? with themargin of the rolution more or less rounded, and in old individualssoliretimes distinctly rounded ; casts showing a small mnhilici~l perfor-;,tion, hut the axis probably soli(l in the shell; volntions probably sere11or eight, but in the casts the ripper ones are nsnally absent and seldomshow more than fonr or four and a half; one small specimen retainingt,lie upper rrliorls, to tllc number of four and a half, measures only fivecighthsof an inch in diamet~?r. This one, if continued below to tlle sizeof the larger one figured, would possess at least eight volutions; xvliorlsoblirluely flattened on their surfaces in the direction of the spire? vit,honly a small portion of their edges rounded or vertical, and tile surfacedeeply and abundantly scarred by the cicatrices of foreign substanceswhich haw been attached to the surface of tl~e shell during life; aperturecompr~:ssc(l: transversely ovate or trapezoi(Iill, and tl~e outer margininucli prolonged." (Whitfield)The rlirner~sions of an internal cast arc: height, 28 mnl. ; masiluulndiameter, 44.5 mm.Range in Kew .ler.se~/--hIT. LAUREL-XAVESINI