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Dorsal valve circular in outline except where truncated by the hinge- 

 line; regularly convex; beak less prominent than that of the other valve, 

 extending beyond the hinge-line; area very narrow. 



Surface marked by very numerous almost indistinct radiating costre 

 and l)y somewhat strong concentric markings. 



Position and Locality.— Upper Red AVall Group, north bank of Wliite 

 River Canyon, twelve miles southwest of Fort Apache, Arizona. 



DIELUSMA King (1859). 



DIELUSMA BOUYIDINES (Morton). 

 Plae, Fig.ll. 



White's description (in part)*: Shell ovate or elongate-ovate in outline; 

 sides behind the middle laterally compressed. Ventral valve strongly 

 arcuate from front to Ijeak. the curvature being greatest behind the 

 middle, rather more capacious than the other valve; beak prominent, in- 

 curved; foramen moderately, not squarely, truncating the beak. Init open- 

 ing obliquely backward, mesial sinus bi-nad. and more or less distinct 

 at the anterior part of tlie valve, but becoming o1)Solete at or l)eliind the 

 middle. Dorsal valve generally almost straight along the median line 

 from front margin to a little behind the middle, from which part it gently 

 curves to the lieak; gently and somewli;it uniformly convex from side to 

 side, without a mesial fold. 



Surface nearly smooth; shell structure finely punctate. 



Position and Locality.— Tapper Red Wall Group. Fort Apache. Arizona. 



SEMINULA McCoy (1844). 



SEMINULA ARGENTIA Shepard. 



Plate, Figs. 12 a, b, e, e. 



Shell varying considerable in outline, generally subovate; seldom as 



wide as long, usually moderately gibbous, but sometimes old shells are 



much inflated. Ventral valve generally a little more capacious than the 



dorsal; beak rather prominent, incurved; mesial sinus usually not very 



deep, and becoming obsolete about the middle. 



•U.S. Geog. Surv. W. of the 100th merirlian, Vol. IV, P. 14t, PI. XL Figs. lOa.b.e. 



