Part II - State of New Jersey

CRETACEOUS FOSSILSconch broken away. Whorls about four, increasing in size with considerablerapidity. A shoulder is formed by a broadly excavated bandbelow the suture. A narrow collar borders the suture but no nodes canbe observed on it. Conspicuous axial ribs, impossible to count becauseof the imperfect state of the fossil. The iurials are most conspicuousnear the shoulder and fade out gradually near the base. The entire surfaceis covered with faint striae. Aperture not observed. Length 19.0mm. ; greatest width 13.0 mm." (Richards)Remarks.-"Close to Aliofusus reagani Stephenson from Navarrogroup of Texas the type species of the genus, but proportionally somewhatstouter." (Richards)Range in New Jersey-RARITAN : laType.-Sayreville, N. J.; NJSM 10439.Fasciolaria ? obliquicostata Gabb 1876Plate 57, Figure 15 ; Plate 64, Figure 2Pasciolaria (Cryptorhytis) obliquicostata Cabb, 1876, Proc. Acad. Nat.Sci. Phil. (1876) p. 283.Cryptorhytis obliquicostata Weller, 1907, p. 759, pl. 89, fig. 8.Pascwlaria ? obliqzricostata Stephenson, 1923, p. 381, pl. 94, figs. 3-4.Description.-The approximate dimensions of an imperfect specimenare: height of shell when complete, point of spire restored, 12.5mm.; height of spire, about 4 mm.; greatest diameter, 7 mm. ; apicalangle, about 52'. Shell fusiform with about three or four volntions,suture well defined, outer volution produced below into a rather shortanterior canal. Surface of the volntions of the spire convex from sutureto suture, and marked by a series of elongate, slightly oblique, rathersharp nodes, about 11 or 12 on each volution, which originate close tothe upper suture, become strongest at about the mid-height of the volutionand grow fainter below to the lower suture. Upon the outer volutionthe nodes resemble those of the spire and become obsolete below,about half way between the suture and the extremity of the anteriorcanal; the surface of the outer volution is convex from the suture tobelow the middle where it becomes concave as it passes into the anteriorcanal, the periphery being without a distinct angulation. Surface of theshell marked throughout with fine revolving lines. (Weller)Remarks.-New Jersey examples of this species are uncommon andgenerally are preserved imperfectly.Range in New Jersey-WOODBURY: 18,24Range outside New Jersey-North Carolina.Type.-Snow Hill, N. C.; ANSP 2308.NEW JERSEY GEOLOGICAL SURVEY