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AHGA (FOSSULASGA ? ) 07ALINA Dall. 



BarTpatia. ( ?oss-ularoa ? ) ov gllra. Dall, 1898, Trans. V^agner Free 



Inst. Soi., Philadelphia, vol. 3, pt. 4, -o. 6?0, nl . 52, 

 fig. 18. 



Descripti on .- "Shell minute, solid, ovate, ~,1 th rather in- 

 flate! valves; beaks low in the anterior fourth, "orosog^rrate; car- 

 dinal area short, narrow, smooth, or longitudinallj? striate, the 

 pr.rt oooupied hy the ligament forming a small er-cavate" triangle 

 7/ith the ape:K: at the bealr in each valve; siiri'ace nearly smooth, s 

 scrlptaire of faint, irregular, concentrie lines, crossed hy still 

 fainter snarse rariiations \'7['i Ich are not pronounced enough to modi- 

 fy the sixrf aoe ; inner margin of the valves smooth; muscular im- 

 pressions large; hirge short v/it?i aboiit three crov/ded anterior 

 and four oblique posterior teeth, the tv;o series separated by a 

 wide n-ap belav the ligament. Ion. ?.2, alt. 2.5, diara. 2 mm." 



"A single specir.-ien of this cixrious little shell, with the 

 form of a rucixla , -^he cardinal :;iar?in of a li'-opsis . and the teeth 

 of an Area; was found in the marl. It shoulr!, perhaps be referred 

 to Lissarca Smith." (Dall, 1998). 



Type locality ., Bowden, Jamaica. 



Renmrks.- Two vslves, one from each collection, of this 



