POST-PLEIOCENE FOSSILS. 



FORAMINIFERA. 



Genus, NODOSAKIA.— Lamk. 



NODOSARIA OBTUSA. — (New Species.) 

 Plate I. Fig. 1. 



Description. Shell elongated, sub-cylindrical, with twenty-two longitudinal, obtuse 

 and flattened ribs; loculi six, convex; aperture round, margin raised and prominent; 

 length, one-fourth of an inch. 



This is the only specimen of a Nodosaria yet discovered in the Post-Pleiocene of 

 South-Carolina. In the Eocene marls of the State, it is common. 



Plate I. Fig. 1, Magnified. 



Locality. Simmons' Bluff", Young's Island. Cabinet F. S. H. 



POLYPAPtlA. 



Genus, ASTRtEA. — Lam 



A S T R ^ A BELLA. 



Plate I. Fig. 2. 



Astrsea bella, Conrad, Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci., Vol. 8, p. 189. 



Astrsea bella, Tuomey 6f Hohnes, Pleiocene Fossils So. Ca., p. I, pi. 1, fig. 1. 



Description. Stars often polygonal, sometimes circular, deep, lamellar; lamella3 numer- 

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