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The known distribution of the genus is restricted to the Upper Cre- 

 taceous of the East Coast and Gulf Eegion of the United States. 



A. Posterior fasciole not sharply differentiated; axial costse rounded. 



Volutomorpha conradi 



B. Posterior fasciole sharply differentiated; axial costse a shaped. 



Volutomorpha perornata 



Volutomorpha conradi Gabb 

 Plate XV, Fig. 8 



Volutilithes conradi Gabb, 1860, Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci., Phila., 2d ser., vol. 



iv, p. 300, pi. xlviii, fig. 10. 

 Fulguraria conradi Gabb, 1862, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., Phila. for 1861, p. 364. 

 Rostellites conradi Meek, 1864, Check List Inv. Fossils, N. A., Cret. and 



Jur., p. 21. 

 Rostellites conradi Conrad, 1S68, Cook's Geol. of New Jersey, p. 730. 

 Volutomorpha conradi Gabb, 1876, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., Phila., p. 293. 

 Volutomorpha conradi Tryon, 1883, Struct, and Syst. Conch., vol. ii, p. 166, 



pi. liv, fig. 27. 

 Volutomorpha conradi Whitfield, 1892, Mon. U. S. Geol. Survey, vol. xviii, 



p. 71, pi. vi, fig. 21; pi. vii, figs. 1-4, ? 5. 

 Volutomorpha gabbi Whitfield, 1892, Ibidem, p. 73, pi. vii, fig. 6; pi. viii, 



figs. 1-4. 

 Volutomorpha conradi Johnson, 1905, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., Phila., p. 25. 

 Volutomorpha gabbi Johnson, 1905, Ibidem. 

 Volutomorpha conradi Weller, 1907, Geol. Survey of New Jersey, Pal., vol. 



iv, p. 780, pi. xcii, figs. 6, 7; pi. xciii, figs. 1-3; pi. xciv, figs. 1-6. 



Description. — " Shell fusiform, tapering ; whorls about four ; spire 

 small and but slightly elevated ; upper side of the whorls subangular ; sur- 

 face markings unknown. From marks on the cast it was apparently orna- 

 mented by longitudinal ridges, crossed by revolving lines; one fold on the 

 columella."— Gabb, 1860. 



Type Locality. — Crosswicks, New Jersey. 



" Shell large, some specimens apparently attaining a length of 4£ in., 

 with a diameter of the largest volution of rather more than 1 ^ in. ; spire 

 short, or only moderately elevated, although the general form of the shell is 

 somewhat slender, the body volution, as viewed on the apertural side, 

 forms fully four-fifths of the entire length, even in the condition of internal 

 casts ; upper volutions compact, convex on the sides, and rather squarish 

 or suddenly rounded to the suture on the top ; body volution very large and 



