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SYNOPSIS OF THE CRETACEOUS FORAMINIFERA 

 OF NEW JERSEY. 



Part I. Review of Previous Investigations. 



BY ANTHONY WOODWARD. 

 {^Presented Deceinba- 20th, 1889.) 



The embodiment of this paper is to bring together all the 

 work that has been previously done, and the remarks that have 

 been made on the Cretaceous Foraminifera of New Jersey, from 

 1 833-1 889, by giving a reproduction of such parts of the various 

 interesting and valuable papers of Isaac Lea, Jacob Whitman 

 Bailey, Samuel George Morton, Charles Lyell, William M. Gabb, 

 Auguste Emanuel Reuss, Fielding Bradford Meek, Louis F. De 

 Pourtales, Herr Hermann von Credner, Thomas Rupert Jones 

 and William Kitchen Parker as are scattered through literature, 

 not always accessible. 



1833. Isaac Lea. Contributions to Geology, 219, 220. De- 

 scription of a new Genus of the Family Spheriilacea of 

 Blainville, from the Cretaceous deposit of Timber Creek, 

 New Jersey. 

 Genus Palmula (nobis). 



Description. Shell palmate, with angular strix, which indicate the in- 

 terior chambers ; aperture terminal. 



Observations. Two specimens of the shell on which I propose to found 

 this genus, were found by me, about four years since, in the Cretaceous 

 deposit of Timber Creek, New Jersey. In its characters it approximates 

 most closely to the genus Saracetiaria of Defrance. Manuel de Malaco- 

 logie, Blainville, 370. The oval form, the possession of a carina, and- 

 the absence of an aperture in that genus, prohibit our shell being placed 

 with it. The Palmula also resembles the genus Textularia of the same 

 author, and might, perhaps, with propriety be placed between these two 

 genera, 

 P. sagUtaria. PI. vi., fig. 228. 



The small figure is of the size of nature. 



Description. Shell depressed, sagittate, rounded on the edges, with 

 about six angular stricc, which indicate the interior chambers ; mouth 

 terminal, oval, sublabiate, Diameter .05, Length .2, Breadth . i of an inch. 

 Observations. The two specimens differ somewhat in outline, the 

 larger one being more elHptical. In both the angular striae become ob- 

 solete at the base, being most distinct on the superior part. 



