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Genus — Onustus, Ilionjjhrey. 



Shell conical, with several volutions, which are flattened or are rendered somewhat 

 concave by an expansion of their lower borders, which overhang and conceal the suture ; 

 the lower border of the last volution is produced horizontally to support a membranous 

 expansion ; the surface has striations, or radiately undulating lines, which are somewhat 

 irregular. The base is concave towards the outer border, and convex towards the centre ; 

 the umbilical orifice is sometimes large, but in other instances small, and becomes nearly 

 concealed by advance of growth ; the aperture is depressed and ovate. Some Tertiary and 

 Recent species have the spire encrusted with fragments of shells or stones, which obscure 

 the ornamentation. 



Xenophora, Fischer, and Phorus, Montfort, are synonyms of this genus. 



Onustus Burtonensis, Lye. Tab. XLV, figs. 1, 7 a, h. 



Testa subconica, spira elevata, obtusa, anfractibus (4-5), angustis subconcavis, longi- 

 tudinaliter costatis, costis {circa 24 — 26) in/erne alternatim in spinis producta ; basi sub- 

 concavo, concentrice et radiatim striata, umbilico amplo. 



Shell subconical, wider than high ; spire moderately elevated obtuse ; volutions four 

 or five, narrow, slightly concave, with about twenty-four to twenty-six longitudinal rounded 

 and elevated costae ; the base of every alternate costa forms, with the lower expanded mar- 

 gin of each volution, a projecting process, which renders the lower margins of the volu- 

 tions undulated; the base is expanded, slightly concave, concentrically and radiately 

 striated ; the umbilicus is large. 



A pretty species, possessing the generic features strongly defined, more especially the 

 expansions at the lower border of each volution, which impart a pagoda-like aspect to the 

 spire. Only two other British Jurassic species are known, viz , Trochus pyramidatm, Phil., 

 = Trochus lamellosus D'Orb., a more depressed species, which occurs in the Supra-Liassic 

 sands, and in the Inferior Oolite of Gloucestershire and of Yorkshire ; the other is the 

 TrocJms ornatissimus, D'Orb., with a very elevated spire, and inordinately expanded at 

 the lower border ; it occurs in the Inferior Oolite of the Cotteswolds, and in the White 

 Oolite of Ponton, Lincolnshire. Our species is most nearly allied to Trochus ornatissimus, 

 but with a shorter spire, fewer volutions, and with prominent overwrapping expansions at 

 the lower border of each volution. Other foreign Jurassic species are Trochus heliacus, 

 D'Orb., T. Tytirus, D'Orb., Solarium callaudianwn, D'Orb., Onustus exul, Eug. Desk, 

 and Onustus liasinus, E. Desk None of these species exhibit those agglutinations of 

 shells and stones which are so characteristic of the Tertiary and Recent examples of 

 Onustus. 



