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EOCEUE AND LOWER OLIGOCENE CORAL FAUNAS. 



Nos. 1, 4, and 5, figured. 1, 2, and 3 in the Philadelphia Academy 

 collection; 4, Boston Society of Natural History collection: 5, United States 

 National Museum. 



Localities. — Kuiglits Braiicli, Clarke County, Alabama; near Choctaw 

 Comer and Thomasville, Alabama; 4 miles south of Mount Sterling, 

 Alabama. 



Geologic occurrence. VVoods Blutf (Baslli) lloHzOn. 



Type. — Collection Pak'ontologique, Paris. 



Figured specimens of this paper. PI. XX, figS. 21, 21a, tVpe ; PI. XX, figS. 22, 23, 



United States National Museum; PI. XXI, fig. 1, Philadelphia Academy of 

 Natural Sciences; PI. XXI, fig. 2, Boston Society of Natural History. 



Specimens. — In collection of British Museum of Natural History ; Wagner 

 Free Institute of Science; T. H. Aldrich. 



This is one of our commonest and most clearly characterized Eocene 

 species. 



Genus EUPSAMMIA Milne-Edwards and Haime. 



EUPSAMMIA ELABOEATA (Courad). 



ri. XXI, figs. 3 to 7. 



1846. TurhinoUa elaborata Conrad. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Pliila., Vol. Ill, p. 22, pi. i, 



fig. 30. 

 1866. Osteodes elaborata Conrad. Check List, p. 2. 



1890. Osteodes elaborata de Gregorio. Mon. de la Fauue eocenique de I'Ala., p. 255. 

 1890. ( 1) I'hicosinUiu ( Trochosmiiia) coiinivens de Gregorio. Mon. de la Faune t'oceuiijue 



de I'Ala., p. 255, pi. xliv, figs. 25-28. 



1895. Eupsammia elaborata Vaiigban. Johns Hopkins Univ. Circ. Vol. XV, No. 121, 



p. 6. 



1896. Uupsammia elaborata Vaughan. Bull. U. S. Geol. Survey No. 141, p. 90. 



The following brief description is based on the original type of Conrad. 

 It bears the label, written by Conrad, " Osteodes elaborata Con., Clai- 

 borne, Ala." This specimen is in the Academy of Natural Sciences of 

 Philadelphia. PI. XXI, fig. 3, is from a drawing of it. 



