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Callopora ampla.] « 



The diaphragms are more numerous in this species than in any other known to 

 me. Very closely allied, however, are C. anaularis, C. ampla and C. goodhuensis. The 

 first is distinguished by its smaller size, smooth branches and somewhat less crowded 

 diaphragms, especially in the mesopores; the second by its smooth branches, nar- 

 rower peripheral region, slightly larger zooecia and more numerous mesopores; the 

 third is smaller, with smaller zocBcia and more abundant mesopores. 



■ Formation and locality. —In Minnesota the species is rare in the middle third ol the Trenton shales 

 at Minneapolis, rather abundant in the upper third at St. Paul and in the vicinity of Cannon Falls, and 

 exceedingly abundant in the Galena shales at many localities in Ramsey, Goodhue and Fillmore counties. 

 Also a common fossil of the Trenton at several localities in central Kentucky, and near Nashville, Ten- 

 nessee. The same species apparently occurs at Ottawa, Canada. 



Mus. Reg. Nos. 3485, 7652. 



Callopoea ampla, n. sp. 



IfLATE XXIII, PIGS. 15, 18-20, 22, 23, 27, 28. 



This form is very closely related to C. multitabulata^ and doubtlessly belongs to 

 the same line of development. Under the circumstances it will be sufficient to 

 point out its peculiarities. The growth is less compact, the branches, though fully as 

 large as in that species, being, as a rule, less frequently divided. Except in rare cases 

 the surface is without monticules, and while there are clusters of zooecia appreciably 

 larger than the average they are never conspicuous except when elevated into mon- 

 ticules. The zooecia are larger, with an average of nine in 3 mm., the apertures a 

 little oblique, drawn out lengthwise and apparently more shallow, while the occa- 

 sionally preserved closures seem to be without ornamentation. Tbe form of the 

 apertures may be oval or angular, the first when mesopores are comparatively 

 abundant, the second when they are few and very small. In both cases, however, 

 thin sections are generally required to demonstrate the existence of the latter. In 

 most instances the mesopores are fewer than in fig. 18, and as a rule they occupy the 

 angles of junction between the zooecia where, when the surface is a little weathered, 

 they often appear as acanthopore-like elevations. 



Comparing internal characters we find that in C. ampla the tubes in the axial 

 region are generally of larger size, and that they curve to the surface more slowly. 

 The fully developed peripheral region is much narrower than in specimens of the 

 same size of C. multitabulata (compare figs. 19 and 22 with 24 of plate XXIII), the 

 superficial crowding of the diaphragms more sudden, and the intervals between 

 them throughout the axial region a little greater. The last difference, however, 

 does not apply when we compare the Galena shales varieties of the two species. 

 These often agree so closely in every other respect as well that a rigid distinction 



