ELASMOBRANCHII. 



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Fig. 19. — Lamina texana Roemer. 1-2, Pemberton (Budd) ; 3-4, Vincen- 

 town (Bryan) ; 5-8, Haddonfield ; 9, Mullica Hill (Gabb). 



(W. M. Gabb), 2 from Haddonfield [Woodbury clay K.] (J. 

 Leidy), 1 from Vincentown [the Manasquan ? marl, K.] (T. M. 

 Bryan) and 1 from Pemberton [Manasquan marl K.] (C. 

 Budd). 



Genus OTODUS Agassiz. 



Otodus Agassiz, Poiss. Foss., Ill, 1843, pp. 266, 307. Type Otodus obllquus 

 Agassiz, first species, restricted by Hay, Bull. U. S. Geol. Surv., No. 179, 

 1902, p. 304. 



A provisional genus, embracing species evidently of large size, 

 and known only from the teeth, which are large, thickened, 

 though somewhat compressed, elongately triangular, with sharp- 

 ened and entire cutting-edges, and 1 or 2 rather large cusps each 

 side basally. Roots also large and thickened. 



