Description of anew genus of the Family Spurruiacea of 
Blainville, from the Cretaceous deposit of Timber Creek, 
New Jersey. 
GENUS PALMULA. (nobis. 
Description. Shell palmate, with angular stria, which 
indicate the interior chambers ; aperture terminal. 
Observations. 'Two specimens of the shell on which I 
propose to found this genus, were found by me, about four 
years since, in the Cretaceous deposit of Timber Creek, 
New Jersey. In its characters it approximates most 
closely to the genus Saracenaria* of Defrance. 'The oval 
form, the possession of a carina, and the absence of an 
aperture in that genus, prohibit our shell being placed 
with it. The Palmula also resembles the genus Textularia 
of the same author, and might, perhaps, with propriety be 
placed between these two genera. 
P. sagittaria. Plate 6. Fig. 228. 
The smaller figure is of the size of nature. 
Description. Shell depressed, sagittate, rounded on the 
* See Manuel de Malacologie, p. 370. 
