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18 CRETACEOUS FOSSlLSwhich may also be considered the periphery; base below the peripherysteep, gently convex. Exposed part <strong>of</strong> penultimate and antepenultimatewhorls gently convex." (Stephenson)Remarks.-Related to L. teres Stephenson from the \T700~lhine formation<strong>of</strong> Texas. For further description see Stephenson (1954).Range iw <strong>New</strong> <strong>Jersey</strong>-RAKITAN: lb1'ype.-Sayreville, N. J. ; IJSNAZ 108663.Family VermetidaeSiliquaria pauperata Whitfield 1892Plate 50, Figures R,9Siliquaria pauperata TIrhitfield, 1892, p. 149, pl. 18, figs. 28-28.Siliquaria pauperata Weller, 1907, p. 705, pl. i9, figs. 18-20.Description.-"A few specimens only <strong>of</strong> casts <strong>of</strong> tubes referableto this genus have come under my notice. Two <strong>of</strong> them are coiledand retain the younger parts <strong>of</strong> the specimens, while most <strong>of</strong> them areonly fragments representing medium sized parts <strong>of</strong> the tubes, or partsfrom the large irregularly coiled portions. The tube is very graduallytapering, and either compactly or loosely coiled in the upper part, butall show their relations to the genus Siliquaria, by the narrow ridgeleft along the upper side <strong>of</strong> the tube by the material whicli has filled theslit. There is no distinctive feature represented on the specimens bywhich they can be distinguisllcd from casts <strong>of</strong> other species <strong>of</strong> the genus ;and, as no evidence <strong>of</strong> the surface cl~aracters are preserv~:rl, uo data forcomparison is left." (Whitfielcl)Kanye in. A'ew <strong>Jersey</strong>-NAVESINK :T,ype.-<strong>New</strong> <strong>Jersey</strong>; ANSP 15558.Laxispira lumbricalis Gabb 1876Plate 57, Figures 10,llLazispira Izcmbn'calis Gabb, 1876, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sei. Phil. (1876)p. 301.Lazispira luntbricalis, Whitfield, 1892, p. 148, pl. 18, fig. 25.Lazispira lumbricalis Weller, 1907, p. 706, pl. 81, figs. 1-2.Lazispira lun~bricalis Gardner, 1916, p. 485.Lazispira lz~mbricalis Wade, 1926, p. 159, pl. 55, figs. 5-8.Lazispira lumbricalis Croot, Organist and Richards, 1954, p. 50.Description.-The dimensions <strong>of</strong> a large specimen, an internal cast,are : height, 29 mm. ; maximum diameter, 12.5 mm. ; apical angle, aboutNEW JERSEY GEOLOGICAL SURVEY

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