order T I] I -. D S S M .A 3 E A . 



Superfaraili^ A3 _ .-^ ?. T A G S A . 



Pamily Orassatellitidae. 

 Genus aH-'VoSATELLI TLS Krttger. 

 Subgenus Grassatellites s. s. 

 Section Scara'bula (Gonrad) Dall. 



■0HA3SATSLIIT3S (SGAI.IBUM) JAI^IGEIISIS Dall. 



Grassr.tellites ( Seainl)ula ] J ana io en sis Sail, 19b3, T ans. .'/a-^ner 



ITree Inst. 3ci., Philadelphia, vol. 5, pt. 5, op. 1471- 

 1472, pi. ^.n, fio-. 15. 



Description. - "Shell solid, nearly equilateral, suhtrigonal, 

 rounder! "below and in front r;ith posterior end obliquely SLih truncate 

 and a feeble carina bou..ding the posterior dorsal area; lunule 

 end escutcheon subeoual, moderately impressed; nepionic shell 

 flattened, with seven or eiP'ht concentric Io'n umdula tions, which 

 extend, down about one-fourth of the way to the basal ruarrin mesial - 

 ly, and on the anterior slope are continuous, though the greater 

 part of the dislr and the v;hole of the -nosterior dorsal ar:a are 

 smooth except for incremental lines; hinge norraal, the posterior 

 right cardinal nearly obliterated; laminar grooves deep; internal 

 rr.arrrins of the valves smooth. Ton. at ^ o--^. -v ^ ,--5,-,,. -r, r^im." 

 (Dall, i9or:). 



Type locality .- Bowden, Jamaica. 



