126 PALEONTOLOGY OF NEW JERSEY. 
Family SCALARIID®. 
Genus SCALARIA Lamarck. 
SCALARIA MULTISTRIATA. 
Plate xx11l1, fig. 5. 
Scalaria multistriata Say: Am. Conch., Pl. xxvii; Tuomey and Holmes, Plioe. Foss. 
S. Car., p. 120, Pl. xxv1, fig. 142; Emmons, Geol. N. Car., 1858, p. 271, fig. 165. 
Scala multistriata? (Say) Conrad: Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1862, p. 565; Meek, 
Check List Miocene Foss., p. 18. 
“Shell conic, turreted, tapering to an acute apex, white, immaculate, 
impertorate; whorls about eight, in contact; coste regular, simple, not 
reflected, equidistant, moderately elevated; spaces between the coste, with 
very numerous approximate, equidistant, impressed lines; suture well 
impressed; body whorl with about sixteen cost.” (Say’s description of 
recent shell.) 
A single small specimen of this species has been collected, which is 
about two-thirds as large as the recent shells. So far as the characters are 
preserved, it agrees well with recent specimens, but as the shell is denuded 
of the surface layer over the entire surface the fine spiral striz can not be 
observed. The specimen contains four and a half volutions, having lost 
two or more at the apex, and in consequence of the loss of surface shows a 
small umbilical opening. The volutions are very round and full, with the 
sutures deep and strongly marked; aperture very nearly circular, being 
barely longer than wide; body whorl with eighteen longitudinal ribs, which 
are directed backward in crossing from above to the lower side, but the 
external features of the ribs are not preserved. 
Formation and locality: In the gray micaceous marls of the Miocene at 
Jericho, N. J. From the National Museum collection. 
