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sancls and sandstone, extending along the bluffs, and skirting the 

 bottoms, from Commerce, in Scott county, Missouri, westward to 

 Stoddard, and thence south to the chalk bluffs in Arkansas to the 

 Tertiar}^ age. His section shows a thickness of 214 feet, but no fossils 

 were obtained. 



Prof. E. Emmons* described, from the Eocene of Craven county, 

 North Carolina, Carcharodon ferox, Gidaris caroUnensis, Echinolam- 

 piis appendicidatus, Echinocyamus parvus; from near Newbern, Gar- 

 charodon triangularis, Trygon caroUnensis; from Wilmington, Gar- 

 charodon crassidens, G. contortidens, Cidaris mitchelli, Gonioclypeus 

 subangulatus, Liinulites ohlongns; and from other places, Hemipristis 

 crenulatus. 



He described, from the Miocene at Elizabethtown, and near Cape 

 Fear river, Bladen county, North Carolina, Polyptychodon rugosus, 

 Elliptonodon compressus, Fusus a^qualis, E. lamellosus, F. monilifor- 

 mis, Fasciolaria elegans, F. alternata, F. acuta, F. nodulosa, F. spar- 

 roioi, Gancellaria caroUnensis, Buccinum moniliforme, B. multilineat- 

 um. Valuta ohtusa, Paludina suhglobosa; and from the marl of other 

 places, Galeocerdo suh-crenatiis, Pycnodus caroUnensis, Terebra ne- 

 glecta, Dolium octocostatum, Marginella constricta, M. elevata, Pleu- 

 rotoma elegans^ P. Jtexuosum, P. tuberculatum, Pyramidella reticu- 

 lata, Ghemnitzia reticulata, Eulima subulata, Gerithium annulatum, 

 G. bicostatum, Terebellum constricturn, >calaria curta, Littorina Une- 

 ata, Delphinula quadricostata, now Garinorbis quadricostatus, Torna- 

 tina cylindrica, Goicum annulatum, Pecten irrincepoides, Ghama sti'i- 

 ata, and Artemis transversus. 



Prof F. S. Holmesf described, from the Post Pliocene of Soufh 

 Ca,ro\ma., J^odosaria'obtusa, Astra'a crassa, Pectunculus charleston- 

 ensis, Lucina kiawahensis. Tapes grus, Mulinia milesi, Mesodesma 

 concentricum, Abra angulata, 3fya simplex, Gavolina tuomeyi, Fusus 

 conus, F. fiUformis, F. bullata, F. rudis, Volutomitra wandoensis, 

 Turbonilla cancellata, T. quinquestriata, T. lineata, T. subulata, T. 

 caroliniana, T. acicula, T. subcoronata, Obeliscus crenulatus, Archi- 

 tectonica gemma, Angaria crassa, and Adeorbis nautiliformis. 



Dr. B. F. Shumard;]; described, from rocks supposed to be of Eocene 

 age, at Port Orford and at Davis' Coal Mine in Oregon Territory, Lu- 

 cina fibrosa, Gorbula evansana, Leda oregona, now Nuculana ore- 



* Geo. Sur. N. Carolina, 



t Post Pliocene Fossils of South Caroliua. 



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