254 PALEONTOLOGY OF NEW JERSEY. 
specimens have been found.” The type specimen came from Delaware. 
The largest New Jersey example which I have seen is figured on the 
plate as above. It bears all the characters of Dr. Morton’s species, but is 
somewhat compressed laterally, so as to give it rather less thickness, but it 
is certainly not the young of A. Delawarensis. On examining the type speci- 
men of this latter species, the inner coils of which have been entirely 
removed by decomposition, it is seen that up to a diameter of nearly 3 
inches they would present much the same features as those possessed by 
this specimen; only that the transverse diameter has been nearly or quite 
an inch at the margin of the umbilicus, and that the sides are much more 
convex, while the keeled character of the dorsum is much less conspicuous. 
But it can readily be seen that all these features are liable to change with 
the degree of lateral compression. The features of the septa appear to -be 
the same in two species, as will be seen by a comparison of the diagrams of 
the small individual, which is enlarged to two diameters, with that of A. 
Delawarensis; which is of mature size. The small individual from which 
the figures above alluded to were made is the property of the Am. Mus. 
Nat. Hist., and comes from Burlington County, New Jersey. The type of 
A. Vanuxemt originally figured by Dr. Morton, when compared with the 
inner coils of the large specimen of 4. Delawarensis figured on our plate, 
is not more than half as thick laterally where the dorso-ventral diameter is 
the same; and the transverse ridges are finer, less elevated, and present an 
entirely different feature, which compression would fail to produce on forms 
like A. Delawarensis. 
Formation and locality: Morton’s type was from the Chesapeake and 
Delaware Canal, and is from the lower part of the Lower Marls. The Bur- 
lington County, New Jersey, specimens would be from the same geological 
horizon. 
