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tion given of it elsewhere, and the form is certainly distinct from those of 
the Cretaceous beds below. 
NAUTILUS COOKANA, h. Sp. 
Plate xtviml, Fig. 1, and Pl. xix, Figs. 4-6. 
Shell large, often reaching early a foot In its greatest diameter and 
proportionally wide and ventricose. Volutions rapidly expanding and prob- 
ably only three or four in number, rounded on the back and when retain- 
ing their normal form are but slightly more compressed on the sides. Axis 
perforate, the umbilicus only of moderate width but very deep, owing to 
the greater additional breadth of the outer volution at the axis than the pre- 
ceding one; margins of the umbilicus abruptly rounded. Septa distant, 
only moderately concave and regularly curved ina dorso-ventral direction, 
but much more flattened laterally; the ventral margin, surrounding the pre- 
ceding volution, somewhat raised. The lines indicating the septa on the 
casts are only slightly recurved on the sides and are but little directed 
forward on the dorsum; not more so than is called for by the difference in 
the two diameters of the volution. Siphon moderately large, almost cen- 
trally situated, being slightly nearer the ventral margin in the best pre- 
served examples examined. Shell unknown, the species known only from 
internal casts. 
This species is not uncommon in the stony layer at the top of the 
Upper Marls at Farmingdale, Deal, Squankum, and Shark River, New 
Jersey, and so far as can be seen or determined by the casts alone is a true 
Nautilus. Mr. G. B. Meek, in his list of the fossils of the Shark River 
Marls given in Geol. N. J. for 1868, includes Nautilus Burtint Got. and N. 
Lamarckt Desh. as occurring in these beds, and places them both under 
Conrad’s genus Cymomia, which was founded upon the first of these two 
species. It is possible that a species possessing the features of that genus 
may occur in New Jersey; but among those which I have seen none 
show the double sinuate septa of N. Burtint as described by Mr. Conrad, 
therefore I am inclined to doubt their existence in the State. Most 
European authors agree in considering N. Burtini and N. Lamarcki as 
synonyms, but Deshayes points out differences, and Milne Edwards gives 
