s BAOTTLITE8, < vi; I >. H 1 1.1 s. 



Family II- AMMOMTIP.K. 



The lohes MIH! saddles of Ammonites are figured in pi. 11)8. 

 . 565-567; pi. KM. tigs. 568 .">7<>. 



(it-nii:- BACULITES, Lam. 



Shell straight, elongated, conical ; suture foliately lohed ; last 

 chamher large; margin of aperture dorsally produced. 



Lolirteen species. ( 'retaccous. Europe; Chili; India: 

 I WW S/it/<'.<. 



The haculite limestone of Xoriuiiiuly is so called from the 

 numerous remains of the shells of this animal which it euntains. 



15. ANCHi's, Lam. PI. loo. fig. ;>_>:;. France. 



l'. HAdi.oiDKs. d'Oi-h. |>1. 100. fig-. :>:>4. 



Coni-ad has o-i\-cu the name Cycloceras to a Baculite figured 

 Ity him. hut without generic characters; afterwards, finding that 

 name preoccupied hy McCoy, he changed it to Ci/donn'i'd . st ill 

 giving no diagnosis. 



Meek divides l'>n<-iil iff* into Uvo ^uhgeneric I'onns. which, he 

 remarks, arc possihly distinct genera. 



I. Baculites, Lain, (typical). 



n. Shell straight throughout; aperture directed forward; lip 

 with lateral sinuses directed haekward ; the projection of its 

 siphonal margin, straight, and its ant isiphonal margin convex in 

 outline; interior without regularly disposed ridges. Type. \\. 



\ KKTKISKAUS. Laill. 



('') h. Shell straight posteriori v. Iml with the non-sept a!e part 



!\ arcuate: a pert urea litt le olili(]iie ; appendage of siphonal 



side of lip arching slightly with the general curvature of the 



nun-septate part,, hut not curving over the aperture. 15. INCI K- 



v \ri s. Kujardin. 



2. Cyrtochilus, 



Shell straight ; aperture opening towards the antisiphoiial si<le, 

 and the lateral sinuses of the lip excavated in the opposite direc- 

 tion ; projection of siphonal margin of lip ahrupily arching oxer 

 t he M peil u re. and the ant isiphonal margin oi' same deeply sinuous 

 in-cad of convex in outline; interior with regularly disposed 

 ridges, lea \ ing (hli(pie emi strict ions on internal casts. II \ MITI.S 

 BA4 i I.OIIKS. Mantell 15. op.i.i.ti ATI s. So\vh. 



