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A NUMBER OF GENERA having more or less close relationship to Obolella have 

 been described by European writers, but are not at present known to have 

 representatives in American faunas. Such are Obolus, Monoboltna, Spondy- 

 LOBOLUS, AcRiTis, ScHMiuTiA, MiCKWtTZiA and Neobolus. The original specimens 

 of these genera are mainly from primordial faunas, but they are to a great 

 degree imperfectly known, the figures and descriptions given by various authors 

 not always serving the requirements of the present status in the investigation 

 of these fossils. Much has yet to be learned in regard to the internal charac- 

 ters of most of them before their generic position can be established. 



OBOLUS, EicHWALD. 1829. 



1829. Obolus, EiCHWALD. Zoologia specialis. \-o\. i, p. 274. 



1830. Uii.ffula, Pander. Beitr. ziiv Geogn. des Russisch. Reiches., p. 55. 

 1840. Offliis, Von Bdcii. Beiti-. zur Bestimmung- der Gebirgsform. Russlands. 

 1847. Aulonotreta, Kbtokga (partim). Ueter die Siphonoti'etsese, p, 278. 



J 848. UnguUtes, Bronn. Index PalsBontolog-iciis, vol. iii, p. 1342. 



1871. Uiigiditen. Qdenstedt. Petrifactenk. Deutschl. Brachiopoden, p. 671. 



Type, Obolus Apollinis, Eichwald. Unguliten-schichten. 



This is the best known and most thoroughly studied of all the genera above 

 named. Externally the shells are much like those of Obolella, but are 

 generally larger. and somewhat Hatter. The 

 valves are unarticulated, both having broad, 

 grooved cardinal areas, though the groove on 

 the brachial valve is sometimes obsolescent. 

 The interior of the pedicle-valve* shows a oious Apoiimu. 



n 111CJ Ti J.' FxG. 33. Pedicle-valve. After Davidson. 



pair of well-defined cardinal or posterior j-igs*. Brachial v.-.ive. After kutorga. 

 adductor impressions, just behind the cardinal area and separated by a more or 

 less developed median septum extending to about the center of the valve. 

 The "laterals" are well developed and occupy a position not equivalent to the 



* Kutokga and Davidson (Introd. Brit. Foss. Bracli., pi. x, figs. 2S0-2S5) have not agreed in the determ- 

 ination of the vah-es of Obolus. Of Kctoega's figures of Aulonotreta polita (= Obolus Apollinis}, those 

 lettered 10 &, b', c and d (op. cit., pi. vii), are considered by the author as interiors of the dorsal (brachial) 

 valve, and figure e, that of the ventral (pedicle-) valve. Davidson considered, and with excellent I'eason, 

 figs. 10 b and &' as dorsal and c; d and e as ventral valves. 



