TELLINA. 171 



Distrihiifioii.—GAv\\t of Black Ven. Upper Greensand (zone of Schlocnhachia 



rostrata) of Blackdown, Potternc, Devizes, and near Lyme Hegis. Recorded by 

 Price from tlie Gault of Folkestone. 



i^.n/;////— TELLINIDyE, Dcshai/rp. 

 Genus — Tellina, TAnnxu^. 



(•Syst. Nat,,' eel. 10, 1758, p. C74 ; e.l. 12. 1707, p. lUG.) 



Teli.ix.v Carteront, ,rOrhhnui, 1S45. Plate XXVI, figs. 1-"), IG. 



1842. Tellina ? vel Psammobia ? angulata, Deshayes in A. Leymerie. Mem. Soc. 



geol. de Prance, vol. v, pp. 3, 24, 

 pi. iii, fig. 6 (uon T. amjulata, L.). 

 1845. — ANGULATA ?, E. Forhes. Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc, vol. i, p. 239. 



— Tellina Carteroni, A. d'Orhiijmj. Pal. Franc. Terr. Crcl., vol. iii, p. 420, 



pi. ccclxxx, figs. 1, 2. 

 1850. — — (VOrhujny. Prodr. de Pal., vol. ii, p. 75. 



18(31. — — p. (7e Loriol. Anini. Invert. Foss. Mt. Salcve, p. 5i), 



pi. vii, fig. 2. 

 1865. — —F.J. Field and G. Campiche. Foss. Terr. CrJt. Ste. 



Croix (Mater. Pal. Suisse, ser. 

 4), p. 134. 

 1870. — — F. StoUrxlca. Palocout. ludiea, Cret. Fauna S. India, 



vol. iii, p. 123. 

 1884. — — 0. Weertli. Die Fauna des Neocom. im Teutoburg. 



Walde (Pala;ont. Abhandl., vol. ii), 

 p. 41. 

 1895. — — Cf, Maas. Zcitsclir. d. deutscli. gool. Gesellsch., vol. 



xlvii, p. 257. 

 1900. — — A. Wollcmann. Die Biv. u. Gastrop. d. doutsch. n. 



lioUiind. Neoconis, p. 121. 



Descriplion. — Shell elongate, much compressed, inequilateral, length equal to 

 more than twice the height. Anterior margin rounded, curving rapidly to join 

 the slightly curved ventral margin. Posterior margin oblique, forming an angle 

 with the ventral margin, A shallow furrow passes from the umbo to the middle 

 of the ventral margin. ITmbones small, curved forward. A .sharp carina extends 

 in a curve from the umbo to the postero-ventral angle, and cuts off a narrow, 

 flattened, postero-doi'sal area. Ornamentation con.sists of fine radial ribs on the 

 anterior and ])o.<:terior parts of the valves, especially just in front of the carina ; 

 growth-lines distinct. 



