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fossiliferous stratum is equivalent to the Ripley bed of Alabama, 

 Mississippi aud Texas, which is also represented in North Carolina, 

 especially at Snow Hill, Greene County. 2 



The following is a list of fossils obtained from the well : — 



Ostrea plumosa Morton. 

 Exogyra costata Say. 

 Anomia tellinoides Morton. 

 Camptonectes burlingtonensis 



Gabb. 

 Pinna sp. ? 

 Pteria sp. ? 



Trigoniarca cuneata Gabb. 

 Pectunculus sp. ? 

 Nucula percrassa Conrad. 

 Nucula sp. ? 

 Leda sp. ? 



Trigonia thoracica Morton. 

 Lucina cretacea Conrad. 

 Cardlum eufaulense Conrad. 

 Veniella conradi Morton. 

 Veleda lintea Conrad. 

 Leptosolen biplicata Conrad. 

 Legumen sp. ? 

 Corbula crassiplicata Gabb. 



Cinulia costata n. sp. (fig. 1). 

 Cinulia costata Johnson, n. sp. 

 264, name only. 



Shell with four whorls, spire prominent, body whorl with from 12 

 to 13 revolving grooves, which form an equal number of smooth, 

 flat, revolving costse ; these average about double 

 the width of the grooves. In one specimen the 

 third and fifth costse from the suture are almost 

 twice the width of the others, and the two lower 

 costse divided by a minute, impressed line. The 

 first spiral whorl has six, and the second five, re- 

 volving grooves. Apical whorl smooth, suture 

 deeply impressed. Aperture narrow, oblique, lip 

 broad, thick and crenulated on the inner margin 

 with eight small teeth-like projections, and extend- 



' Conrad, in Kerr's Geology of North Carolina, Appendix, Vol. I, 1875. 



Corbula jotdhei Lea. 

 Dentalium sp. ? 

 Cinulia costata n. sp. 

 Pyrifustis mbdensatus Conrad. 

 A lai'ia rostrata Gabb. 

 Anchura sp. ? (expansion of outer 



lip only). 

 Anchura ? pergracilis n. sp. 

 Pugnellus densatus Conrad. 

 Lunatia halli Gabb. 

 Trichotropis cancellaria Conrad. 

 Scalaria sillimani Morton. 

 Turritella vertebroides Morton. 

 Turritella quadrilira n. sp. 

 Tuba(l) reticulata n. sp. 

 Placentaceras placenta Dekay. 

 Hamulus squamosum Gabb. 

 Platytrochus speciosns Gabb & 



Horn. 



Annual Kept. Geol. Sur. N. J., 1897, page 



