Description of a new genus of the Family SPHERULACEA of 

 Blainville, from the Cretaceous deposit of Timber Creek, 

 New Jersey. 



GENUS PALMULA. (nobis.) 



Description. Shell palmate, with angular striae, 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 Matacologie, p. 370. 



