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Mesozoic and Cenozoic Geology and Paleontology. 
sands and sandstone, extending along the bluffs, and skirting the 
bottoms, from Commerce, in Scott county, Missouri, westward to 
Stoddard, and thence south to the chalk bluffs in Arkansas to the 
Tertiary age. His section shows a thickness of 214 feet, but no fossils 
were obtained. 
Prof. E. Emmons* described, from the Eocene of Craven county, 
North Carolina, Carcharodon ferox, Cidaris carolinensis, Echinolam- 
pus appendiculatus, Echinocyamus parvus; from near Newbern, Car- 
charodon triangularis, Trygon carolinensis; from Wilmington, Car- 
charodon crassidens, C. contortidens, Cidaris mitchelli, Gonioclypeus 
subangulatus, Lunulites oblonyus; and from other places, Hemipristis 
crenulatus. | 
He described, from the Miocene at Elizabethtown, and near Cape 
Fear river, Bladen county, North Carolina, Polyptychodon rugosus, 
Llliptonodon compressus, Fusus equalis, L’. lametlosus, &. monilifor- 
mis, Lasciolaria elegans, Ff. alternata, F. acuta, £. nodulosa, £. spar- 
rowt, Cancellaria carolinensis, Buccinum moniliforme, B. multilineat- 
um, Voluta obtusa, Paludina subglobasa; and from the marl of other 
places, Galeocerdo sub-crenatus, Pycnodus carolinensis, Terebra ne- 
glecta, Dolium octocostatum, Marginella constricta, M. elevata, Pleu- 
rotoma elegans, P. flecuosum, P. tuberculatum, Pyramidella reticu- 
lata, Chemnitzia reticulata, Hulima subulata, Cerithium annulatum, 
C. bicostatum, Terebellum constrictum, »calaria curta, Littorina line- 
ata, Delphinuia quadricostata, now Carinorbis quadricostatus, Torna- 
tina cylindrica, Cecum annulatum, Pecten princepoides, Chama stri- 
ata, and Artemis transversus. 
Prof. F. $. Holmes+ described, from the Post Pliocene of South 
Carolina, Nodosaria obtusa, Astrea crassa, Pectunculus charleston- 
ensis, Lucina kiawahensis, Tapes grus, Mulinia milesi, Mesodesma 
concentricum, Abra angulata, Mya simplex, Cavolina tuomeyi, Fusus 
conus, Ff’. filiformis, f&. bullata, &. rudis, Volutomitra wandoersis, 
Turbonilla cancellata, T. quinquestriata, T. lineata, T. subulata, T. 
caroliniana, T. acicula, T. subcoronata, Obeliscus crenulatus, Archi- 
tectonica gemma, Angaria crassa, and Adeorbis nautiliformis. 
Dr. B. F. Shumard{ described, from rocks supposed to be of Eocene 
age, at Port Orford and at Davis’ Coal Mine in Oregon Territory, Zu- 
cina fibrosa, Corbula evansana, Leda oregona, now Nuculana ore- 
* Geo. Sur. N. Carolina, 
* + Post Pliocene Fossils of South Carolina. 
t Trans. .St. Louis Acad. Sci., vol. i. 
