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NOTE ON GERVILLIA ACUTA AUCTT. NON SOWERBY 

 (GERVILLIA SCARBURGENSIS NOM. NOV) 



FROM 



THE SCARBOROUGH LIMESTONE 

 By E. TALBOT PARIS, P.C.S. 



GERVILLIA SCARBURGENSIS nom. nov. 



T.f. 1853. Morris and Lycett, Monogr. Moll. Gt. Oolite, pt. II., 



tab. xiv., figs. I and la {sub Gervillia acuta Sowerby). 

 T.l. " Scarborough, Yorkshire." 

 H. " Scarborough Limestone." Bajocian. 

 ^. ? blagdeni. 



Colin. Leckenby Collection, Sedgwick Museum, Cambridge. 

 ^Syn. 1829. Gervillia acuta Sow., PhilHps, Geol. Yorksh., pt. I., 

 pi. IX., p. 151, fig. 36. 

 1835. Gervillia acuta Sow., Phillips, ibid., p. 123, pi. IX., 



fig- 36. 

 1853. Gervillia acuta Sow., Morris and Lycett, Monogr. Moll. 

 Gt. Oolite, pt. II., p. 142, tab. xiv., figs, i and la [non 

 p. 20, tab. III., figs. 12 and 12a). 

 1875. Gervillia acuta Sow., Phillips, Geol. Yorksh., pt. I., 

 (3rd ed.), p. 247, pi. IX., fig. 36. 

 Non 1826. Gervillia? acuta Sow. Min. Conch., vol. VI., p. 15, tab. 

 DX,. fig. 5. 

 1853. Gervillia acuta Sow., Morris and Lycett, Monogr. Moll, 

 Gt. Oolite, pt. II., p. 20, tab. iii., figs. 12 and 12a. 



Remarks. — Gervillia scarburgensis is broad and somewhat 

 spathulate posteriorly, and this feature serves to distinguish 

 it from G. acuta Sow., which has a subacuminate posterior 

 extremity and is a relatively more elongate form, and appears 



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