PROCEEDINGS OF THE UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



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SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 



U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM 

 Washington: 1934 



Vol. 83 No. 2975 



SOME FOSSIL CORALS FROM THE WEST INDIES 



By John W. Wells 

 Storrow Fellovj, national Research Council 



In the United States National Museum are three small collections 

 of fossil corals from the West Indies, containing a number of new 

 or otherwise interesting forms : Two collections from the Upper Cre- 

 taceous and Eocene of Jamaica, made by Dr. C. T. Trechmann and 

 Dr. C. A. Matley; and one from the Scotland beds of Barbados, 

 made by Dr. Trechmann. These collections were sent at different 

 times to Dr. T. Wayland Vaughan for determination, but as he was 

 unable to work on them ho turned them over for report to the 

 author during his tenure of a Storrow fellowship of the National 

 Research Council. A preliminary study was carried on under the 

 direction of Dr. Vaughan at the Scripps Institution of Oceanog- 

 raphy, and the final work done at the United States National 

 Museum. 



Material from a fourth lot, the Romanes collection from Barbados, 

 was lent to the author through the courtesy of Dr. H. Dighton 

 Thomas, of the British Museum (Natural History), and notes on 

 this are included in the discussion of the Matley collection from 

 Barbados. 



Because the collection contains corals of different ages and from 

 different areas, the report is divided into four parts as follows: 



(1) The Trechmann and Matley collections from the Upper Cre- 

 taceous of Jamaica (p. 74) ; (2) the Trechmann collection from the 

 lower Eocene Richmond beds of Jamaica (p. 93) ; (3) the Trech- 

 mann and Matley collections from the middle Eocene Yellow lime- 

 stone of Jamaica (p. 94) ; (4) the Trechmann and Romanes coUec- 



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