TRANSACTIONS OF WAGNER 

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TERTIARY FAUNA OF FLORIDA 



? Astarte Thomasi Conrad, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., vii., p. 267, 1855 ; xiv., p. 578, 

 1863 ; Meek, Checkl. Inv. Fos. Miocene, p. 7, 1864 ; Conrad, Am. Journ. Conch., ii., 

 p. 72, pi. iv., fig. 16, 1866; Whitfield, Mioc. Moll. N. Jer., p. 55, pi. viii., figs. 3-7, 

 1895- 



Miocene of Virginia, at various localities on the York River, at Gaskin's 

 and Lee's Wharves on the Nansemond River, and at Petersburg and its vicinity. 



This is a small and elegantly rounded subtrigonal species, with concentric 

 regular sulci with much wider interspaces, and crenate inner margins. It is 

 the most common species in the York River Miocene. 



Astarte Glenni n. sp. 



Miocene of the Darlington district, South Carolina; Burns and Glenn. 



Shell small, compressed, triangular, elevated, subequilateral, smooth or 

 faintly concentrically striated, with high, pointed, slightly prosogyrate beaks ; 

 lunule smooth, elongate, narrow, moderately impressed; escutcheon similar 

 but nearly as long as the whole posterior slope ; ligamentary nymphs short ; 

 hinge normal; adductor scars rather small and the pallial line pretty close 

 to the ventral margin, which is conspicuously and elegantly crenate. Length 

 10, height 10, diameter 4 mm. 



This is a very pretty and very distinct species, which I have named in honor 

 of Professor L. C. Glenn, of Vanderbilt University, who collected it with many 

 other fossils of the Darlington district. 



Astarte sp. 



Miocene gravels of Gay Head, Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts ; Dall 

 and Foerste. 



A species resembling A. sulcata Da Costa is found in these gravels, repre- 

 sented by molds which are hardly perfect enough to serve as the basis of a 

 specific description in so variable a group. 



Astarte (Ashtarotha) obruta Conrad. 



Astarte obruta Conrad, Morton, Syn. Org. Rem., App., p. 3, 1834 (name only) ; Fos. 

 Medial Tert, p. 43, pi. xxi., fig. 2, 1840; Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., vii., p. 150, 

 1855 ; xiv., p. 578, 1863 ; Meek, Checkl. Inv. Fos. Miocene, p. 7, 1864. 



Astarte virginica Conrad, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., xiv., pp. 578, 585, 1863; Meek, 

 Checkl. Inv. Fos. Miocene, p. 7, 1864. 



fAstarte castrana Glenn. 



