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ROSTELLARIA Pes-Pelicani. 
TAB. DLVIII.—jie. 1. 
Spec. Cuar. Turreted, striated; whorls angular 
in the middle and nodulose; last whorl three- 
keeled ; the two upper keels divided into tu- 
bercles ; lip expanded into three, pointed, di- 
verging lobes ; the canal at the base oblique, 
subfoliaceous. 
Syn. Strombus Pes-Pelicani. Linn. et Auct. Broc- 
chi, 2. 385. 
Rostellaria Pes-Pelicani. Parkinson’s Organic 
Remains, 3. 63. Lamarck, Syst. 7. 193. 
Var. meridionalis. Basterot, Mém. de la Soc. 
d’ Histoire Nat. de Paris, 2. 69. 
The fossil shell now before us so precisely resembles 
the species well known as an inhabitant of the sea at the 
present day, that we can but consider them the same. 
Similar shells are found in the vicinity of Dax and in 
Placentia ; but although they are referred to the same 
species, some differences may be observed which appear 
to be constant :—those found near Dax are smaller, and 
have more elongated but less prominent tubercles ; those 
of Placentia have the angles upon the upper whorls, and 
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