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1846. In the ' Bulletin de la Societe Geologique cle France,' torn, iii, 1846, 

 de Verneuil gives a list of fossils from the Carboniferous beds of Asturias collected 

 by Paillette. 'No new species are described and no figures are given. The lists 

 contain the following Lamellibranchs from the Terrain carbonifere, de Pola de Lena : 



Cardiiim voisin du C. rostratum, de Kon. (C. elon(jatum, Sow.). 

 Nucula tumida, Phill. 



1847. A paper by M'Coy, " On the Fossil Botany and Zoology of the Rocks 

 associated with the Coal of Australia," appeared in the ' Annals and Magazine of 

 Natural History,' vol. xx, for 1847, p. 298, et seg., the following new Lamelli- 

 branchs are described, good figures being also given : 



Fecteti ptycliotis. 



— sub-quinquelineafits. 

 Inoceramus MitclielUl. 

 Fleurorhynchus australis. 

 Modiola crassisima. 

 Pachydomus gigas. 



— sacculus. 



— ovalis. 



Fachydomus pusillus. 

 Cardiania exilis, 

 Notomya (new genus). 



— securiformis . 



— clavata. 

 Pullastra ? striatocostata. 

 Venus ? grey aria. 



1849. In the memoir of the United States Exploring Expedition of 1849 

 Prof. Dana published the figures and descriptions of a numerous suite of fossils 

 from beds of Carboniferous age in New South Wales, amongst which were many 

 forms of Lamellibranchiata. None of the shells are recognised as belonging to 

 British or European forms. The work previously done by Morris and M'Coy is 

 acknowledged by the author, who from the text appears to have also previously 

 published some account of fossils from South Australia. The new genera 

 Astartilia and Maeonia, with its allied groups Pyramia and Cleobis, are defined, and 

 the genus Pachydomus of Morris is accepted. 



1849. In the ' Monograph of Permian Fossils of England,' by King, published 

 as the volume for 1849 by the Palseontographical Society, the new generic name 

 Allorisma^ is given to include shells hitherto known as Myacites, Schlothemiy 

 Hiatella, Fleming, Sanguinolaris, J. de C. Soiuerhy, Unio, id., Lutraria, Goldfuss, 

 Pholadomya, Morton, Sanguinolites (pars), M'Coy, and Orthonota (pars), Salter. 

 This genus was supposed to possess a sinus in the pallial impression, and the 

 original of the specimen figured, which is in the Museum at Newcastle-on-Tyne, 

 has a fine pallial sinus in ink. This character is denied by M'Coy, and is 

 certainly absent in all the shells from Redesdale which show the interior as a cast. 

 It is probable that some markings due to other causes were mistaken for the sinus, 



1 There is evidently a misprint in the name on the page giving the explanation of pi. xi 

 (op. supra cit.), where it occurs as Allerisma. 



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