GASTEROPODA. 



from it ; tlie aperture is contracted, and the upper angle of 

 each lip bears a more or less distinct tooth. 



JDistribution, 2 species, Great Oolite and Coral Eag, France 

 and Germany. 



Sub -family — Belleeophontik^ . 



Genera : — Poecellia (p. 344), Belleeophon (p. 344) (with 

 Biicania), and 



Tremanotus, Hall, 1863. 



Type, Bucania Chicagoensis, M'Chesney. 



Shell thick, aperture dilated ; having the form of Bucania^ 

 but with a row of isolated oval siphonal openings along the 

 middle of the dorsal side. 



Fossil, 2 species. Upper Silurian, North America. 



? CARnTAEOPSis, Hall. 



Sliell having a patelloid aspect. Spire usually attenuated; 

 body whorl expanded abruptly; cavity shallow, presenting a 

 kind of septum as in Crepidula. 



Fossil, 2 species. Silurian, America. 



Family XI. — Fisstjrellid^. 

 Deslongchampsia, M'Coy, 1850. 



Dedicated to Dr. Eudes Deslongchamps, the renowned French 

 palseontologist. 



Type, D. Eugenei, M'Coy, Mor. and Lye. 



Shell patelliform, apex acute excentric ; with a wide longitu- 

 dinal anterior sulcus, produced into a rounded lobe. 



' ' This genus differs from Metoptoma in its ornamented surface, 

 and the front margin being produced downwards into a 

 rounded lobe. This latter structure would prevent the firm 

 adhesion of the shell."— (M'Coy.) 



Fossil, 3 species. Lower Oolites. England, Normandy, 

 Galicia. 



Family XIII. — Patellld^. 

 Helcion (Montfort, p. 278), Jeffreys. 



Etymology , a breast-collar. 



Synonyms, Nacella, Schumacher ; Patina, Leach ; Calyptra 

 (pars), Klein. 



Example, H. pellucidum. (Patella pellucida, Linne). 



Shell semioval, not resembling a peaked hat as in Patella ; 



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