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bonal slope, by being less produced posteriorly and by having a much 

 less concave posterior dorsal margin. The young of the two species 

 are quite distinct and need never be confused with each other. 



This species seems to be confined to the lower of the two fossiliferous 

 beds at Governor Eun, Jones Wliarf and that horizon elsewhere, and 

 characterizes it just as the C. marylandicus seems confined to, and is 

 characteristic of, the upper of these fossiliferous beds. 



Length, 87 mm.; height, 55 mm.; diameter, 17 mm. 



Occurrence. — Choptank Formation. Governor Kun (lower bed), 3 

 miles south of Governor Eun (lower bed), Flag Pond (lower bed). Jones 

 Wharf, Pawpaw Point, Cuckold Creek, Greensboro. 



C'o//ech'ons.— Maryland Geological Survey, Johns Hopkins University, 

 U. S. National Museum, Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences. 



Crassatellites UNDULATUS (Say). 



CrassafeUa undulnUi Say, 1824, Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. Fbila., vol. iv, 1st ser., p. 143, 



pi. xii, tig. 2. 

 Crassatella undulata Conrad, 1832, Fossil Shells of the Tertiary, p. 23, pi. ix. 

 Crassatellites [Scambula) undulatus var. cyclopterus Dall, 1903, Trans. Wagner Free 



Inst. Sci., vol. iii, pt. vj, p. 1474. 



Description.— "Thx^ species is believed to be another of the Virginia 

 forms given to Say by Finch and erroneously described as coming from 

 Maryland. No authentic Maryland specimens of this species are known 

 by the writer. 



Occurrence. — " Maryland " (Dall) . 



Subgenus CRASSINELLA Guppy. 



Crassatellites (Crassinella) duplinianus Dall. 

 Plate XCIV, Fig. 12. 



Crassatellites {Crassinella.) duplinianus Dall, 1908, Trans. Wagner Free Inst. Sci., vol. 

 iii, pt. vi, p. 1478, pi. ), tigs. 5, (5. 



Description. — " Shell small, subtriaugular, solid, with markedly acute 

 beaks, which incline backward ; anterior slope convexly arcuate, long; 

 posterior slope nearly a straight or slightly concave line, shorter; lunule 

 and escutcheon extending the whole length of their respective slopes, 

 long and narrow, the latter more excavated than the former and wider; 



