POST-PLEIOCENE FOSSILS. 



FORAMINIFEIU. 



Genus, NODOSAFJA.— Lamk. 



NODOSAKIA OB T US A . — {New Species.) 

 Plate I. Fig. 1. 



Description. Shell elongated, sub-cylindrical, with twenty-two longitudinal, obtuse 

 and flattened ribs: loculi six, convex; aperture round, margin raised and prominent; 

 length, one-fourth of an inch. 



This is the only specimen of a Nodosaria yet discovered in the Post-Pleiocene of 

 South-Carolina. In the Eocene marls of the State, it is common. 



Plate I. Fig. 1, Magnified. 



Locality. Simmons' Bluff, Young's Island. Cabinet F. S. H. 



POLYPARIA. 

 Genus, ASTRyEA.- Lam. 



A S T E M A BELLA. 



Plate I. Fig. 2. 



Astraea bella, Conrad, Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci., Vol. 8, p. 189. 



Astresa bella, Tuomey $ Holmes, Pleiocene Fossils So. Ca., p. I, pi. 1, fig. 1. 



Description. Stars often polygonal, sometimes circular, deep, lamellar; lamellae numer- 

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