Part II - State of New Jersey

46 CKI~3'I':\C1101JS FOSSILSRostellites nasutus Gardner, 1916, p. 422.Rostellites na.stcttrs Groot, Organist, and Ilichards, 1954, p. 52.Description.-"Shell of moderately large size, sometimes attaininga length of nearly or quite 5 inches. lhrm slender, with a proportioallyshort, turreted spire, varying from two-thirds of the length of thebody volution in the casts to not more than one-third in the shell itself;number of volutions uncertain, the type specimen having had aboutfour; hotly volution slender, most ventricose near the upper part,marked by numerous spiral ridges with broader interspaces which havepossibly been marked by smaller ridges between the large ones; theupper lines nearly parallel to the suture, but below they become moreand more oblique, so that the lower ones L~ecome nearly parallel withthe columella; aperturc cou~paratively broad and the lip thin ; eoluniellamarked by three or four very ohliqnc folds, situated uear the middleof its length; the upper three at equal dist.ances fro~n each other ant1the lower one a little more distant from the next above." (Whifield)Range in New Jersey-MERCI-IANTVI1,LE : 15IVOODBURY: 20BIT. LAUREL-NAVESINK: 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 47Ran!le outside New Jersey-Delaware, Alabama.Type.-Cross~vicks, N. J.; ANSP 14415.Rostellites angulatus Whitfield 1892Plate 56, Figure 10Rostelliles angztlati~s IIrhit6eld, 1892, p. 88, pl. 11, figs. 3-4.Rostellites ang?dufzcs IVcller, 1907, p. 767, p1. 97, figs. 3-4.Descriptio?z.-"Shell moderately large and proportionally slender,with an elevated spire, as shown by the cast, the only condition in whichit has been recognized; body volution forming the great bulk of theshell, and thc aperture equaling more than one-half of the entire length;volutions probably five or morc, flattened on their surfaces with abruptscalariform sutures; last volution flattenccl or obscurely concave belowthe suture for nearly one-half the length, and abruptly contractedbelow, forming an undefined mgle a little above the middle of thelength of the volntion, and estendetl below int:o a more or less slendercolumella; aperture narrow and pointed above, broad ant1 somewhateffuse below; colu~nella marked by four strong oblique folds, t,he lowerone of mhiel~ is more distant from the nest above than are the othersfrom each other; surface features unlmo~m." (Whitfield)Range in Xcw Jerscy-11IT. LAUREL-NAVESINK : 37Type.-New Jerscy (Atlantic Highlilnds 1) ; ANSP 143!11.NEW JERSEY GEOLOGICAL SURVEY