.M.\mi..\M> <;i;()i,()<;icAK .sluvky 229 



I li;i\(' cninpnrcil oiii' A iiicricnii iiintci'iiil vory carrriillv witli tliu 

 (lcs(Ti|i( idiis and IIl^iiits (if //. i/csiihi/iIii/IIiiih ^nvcn liv M iliK'-Edwanls 

 and llaiiiic, and w Ihii in LiMidoii, in .lannarv. ISDS, 1 had the oppor- 

 tnnily In cxannnc the types of the species. I liave been iinahle to find 

 any ehai-aetei' Uy which the Aniei'ican specimens can be separated fi'om 

 these t'l'diii I Irackh'shani lieds, iMi^land. M ilne-l*",d wafds and Ilainie 

 ,<;'i\'e an acconnt of the allinities of //. i/fsuin/ilii/lluin. for the other Euro- 

 pean species of the <i'enus in theii' Monoui-apli of the British Fossil Cor- 

 als. 'IMieir work can ]ie consulted foi' these notes. 



Occurrenrr. — A(jriA Formation. 1 mile southeast of Mason Springs. 



Cnllrclinii. — ^Maryland Ceolooical Survey. 



Genus F.UPSAMMIA Miine-Edwnrds and Hainie. 



EuPSAMMiA ELABOEATA (Conrad). 

 Plate LXI, Figs. 12, 13, 13a, 14, 14a. 



Turbinolia elaboraia Conrad, 1846, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., vol. iii, p. 22, pi. i, 



fig. 30. 

 Osteodes elahorata Conrad, 1S66, Check List, p. 2. 



Osieodes elaboraia de Gregorio, 1890, Mou. de la faune eocenique, de I'Ala., p. 25. 

 in Phtcosmilia (Trochosmilia) connivens De Gregorio, 1890, Mon. de la faune 



eocenique de I'Ala., p. 255, pl. xliv, tigs. 25-28. 

 Enpsammia elaboraia Vaughan, 1895, Johns Hopkins Univ. Circ, vol. xv, p. (j. 

 Eupsammia elaboraia Vaughan, 1896, Bull. 141, U. S. Geol. Survey, p. 90. 

 Eupsammia elaboraia Vaughan, 1900, Mon. U. S. Geol. Survey, No. 39, p. 180, pl. 



xxi, tigs. 8-7. 



Description. — The following brief description is based on the original 

 type of Conrad. It bears the label, "svritten by Conrad, " Osteodes 

 elahorata Con., Claiborne, Ala." This specimen is in the Academy of 

 Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 



Corallum compressed, conical, straight; cross-section elliptical, no in- 

 dication of attachment. Costae rather fine, show perforations; branch 

 by trifurcation. No epitheca. Wall perforate, spongy. Septa thin, in 

 five cycles, anastomosing as usual in Eupsammia. Columella spongy. 

 Greater diameter of calice. 12 mm.; lesser diameter of calice. 9 mm.; 

 length of corallum. 13 mm. 



