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impressions are usually strongly developed, there being beneath the deltidial 

 plates a deep scar of the pedicle-muscle, while the adductor impression on the 

 pedicle-valve is often very marked. The adductors of the brachial valve and 

 the diductors of the pedicle-valve are more or less distinctly defined. 



Shells possessing the features indicated became prevalent in the fauna of the 

 Hudson River group {R. capax, Conrad, R. increbescens, Hall, R. dentata. Hall), 

 but probably made their earliest appearance in tliat of the Trenton limestone 

 {R. increbescens, Hall, Trematospira quadriplicata, Miller). There is thus far no 

 satisfactory evidence of its existence in later faunas. 



Genus RHYNCHOTRETA, Hall. 1879. 



PLATE LVI. 



1828. Terebratula, Dalman. Kong. Vetenskaps-Akad. Handlingar. p. 141, pi. vi, fig. 3. 



1828. Terebratula, Hisinger. Bidrag till Sveriges Geognosi, pt. iv, p. 239, pi. vi, fig. 3. 



1839. Terebratula, J. de C. Sowerby. Silurian System, p. 625, pi. xii, fig. 13. 



1846. Atrypa, McCoy. Synopsis Silurian Fossils Ireland, p. 39. 



1848. Hyyothyris, Phillips and Salter. Mem. Geol. Survey of Great Bi-itain, vol. ii, {it. I, p. 280. 



1852. Atrypa, Hall. Pal.neontology of New York, vol. ii, p. 276, pi. Ivii, figs. 4 a-r. 



1859. Rhynchonella, Hall. Twelfth Ann. Kept. N. Y. State Cab. Nat. Hist., p. 77. 



1859. Metzia, Salter. Murchison's Siluria, second edition, pi. xxii, fig. 8. 



18C0. Rhynchonella, Lind.strhm. Ofvers. Kongl. Vetenskaps-Akad. Foi'handl., p. 365. 



1867. Rhynchonella, Davidson. British Silurian Bi-achiopoda, p. 164, pi. xxi, tigs. 7-11. 



1879. Rhynchotrefa, Hall. Twenty-eighth Ann. Rept. N.Y. State Mus. Nat. Hist., pp. 166-168, figs.1-4, 

 pi. XXV, figs. 29-3S. 



1882. Rhynchotreia, Hall. Eleventh Ann. Rept. State Geologist of Indiana, pp. 309-311, figs. 1-4, 



pi. XXV, figs. 29-38. 



1883. Rhynchonella, Davidson. British Silurian Bracbiopoda, Suppl., p. 154, pi. x, figs. 9, 10. 



1889. Rhynchotreia, Beecher and Clarke. Mem. N. Y. State Mus., vol. i. No. 1, pp. 47-51, pi. iv, 



figs. 12-22. 

 1889. Rhyiichotreta, Nettelroth. Kentucky Fossil Shells, pp. 84, 85, jil. xxxii, figs. 58, 59, 62, 63. 



Elongate-triangular, strongly plicated shells with fold and sinus normal, in 

 adolescent and mature stages ; long and broad cardinal slopes ; beak erect, acu- 

 minate and produced on the pedicle-valve. Foramen at maturity apical, its upper 

 margin encroaching on the substance of the valve. Deltidium very conspicuous, 

 convex, the component plates, in their later development, being anchylosed along 

 the median suture. Dental lamellse vertical, resting on the bottom of the 

 valve and enclosing a deeply impressed muscular scar; diductor scars elongate- 

 flabelliform, divided by oblique ridges into anterior and posterior members ; 



