FORAMINIFERA. 223 



Nodosaria zippei Reuss. 

 Plate II., Fig. 24. 



1844. Nodosaria zippei Reuss, Geogn. Skizze Bohm, vol. ii, pt. 



'i, p. 210. 



1845. Nodosaria zippei Reuss, Verstein. bohm. Kreide, pt. I, 



p. 25, pi. viii, figs. 1-3. 



1860. Dentalind pulchra Gabb, Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci., Philadel- 

 phia, n. s., vol. iv, p. 402, pi. Ixix, figs. 40, 41. 



1894. Nodosaria raphanistrum Woodward, Jour. N. Y. Microsc. 

 Soc., vol. x, No. 4, p. no. 



1898. Nodosaria zippei Bagg, Bull. U. S. G. S., No. 88, p. 45, 

 pi. 3, fig. i. 



Description. "Test straight, or but slightly arcuate, very large 

 and long, sometimes reaching 10 millimeters in length; chambers 

 numerous, becoming more distinct toward the ultimate chamber; 

 primordial segment slightly larger than the one succeeding, 

 mucronate; surface of shell marked by from seven to fourteen 

 (usually about twelve) very prominent costse, only part of which 

 extend the whole length of the shell ; ultimate chamber slightly 

 prolonged ; aperture rotund. 



"Length, 9 mm. and over. Small specimens, 3.2 mm. ; breadth, 

 0.5-1 mm." (Bagg.) 



Remarks. "This beautiful species is one of the very largest 

 forms of Foraminifera found in the New Jersey Cretaceous marl 

 beds, and was described by Gabb as early as 1860, under the 

 name Dentalina pulchra. Owing to its great length it is very 

 easily broken, so that only a few of the largest specimens are 

 perfect. It was very well described by Reuss in 1844 (loc. cit), 

 who said that its length was sometimes i l / 2 inches, the number 

 of chambers twenty to thirty, the costse seven to fourteen, and 

 that there were secondary riblets occasionally set in between the 

 main costse and running a short distance along the surface of 

 the shell. 



"Reuss also 1 pointed out the similarity of Nodosaria septemr- 

 costata and N. undecimco'Stata Geinitz, and considered the two 

 latter as identical with N. zippei. Dr. Anthony Woodward con- 



