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NORTH-CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL 8URVET. 



FIG. 246. 



SCUTELLA LYELLH.- (Fig. 246.) 



Shield small, sub-circular, flat, scarcely 

 convex above ; below slightly concave ; 

 ambulacra open towards the margin and 

 terminating in four pores ; in that direc- 

 tion mouth small ; vent near the margin. 

 Eocene, Wilmington. 



SCUTELLA. (Fig. 247-'8. 



Figures 247-' 8 represent a common fossil of the eocene 

 of Craven county. 247 inferior face, showing the relative 



FIG. 247-'8. 





position of th^ mouth and excretory orifice. Figure 248 is 

 profile view of the same. The apical summit is before the 

 genital. Since its discovery no opportunity has been furnish- 

 ed by which I could obtain a comparison with the forms al- 

 ready known and described by the palaeonlologists of this 

 country. Wadsworth's eocene marl, Craven county. 



