1916] Nomland: Corals from Cretaceous and Tertiary of California 69 



Occurrence at California Academy of Sciences locality 101, along 

 sea-cliff about two miles north of Delmar, San Diego County, Cali- 

 fornia. In the Tejon Eocene. 



FAMILY GORGONIDAE 



The material at hand consists of one imperfect specimen, shown on 

 plate 4, figure 6. This species seems to belong to the gorgonian corals, 

 although the material does not warrant a description. This specimen 

 is from locality 1853, Chico, Marysville quadrangle, California. 

 Material in collections of Department of Palaeontology of the Uni- 

 versity of California. 



Other fragmentary material shown on plate 4, figures 7 and 8, seems 

 to indicate that the coral belongs to the family Gorgonidae. No specific 

 determination could be made, however. From locality 172 of the Cali- 

 fornia Academy of Sciences, in a small bluff in the S W corner of Com- 

 mercial and Fifth streets, Astoria, Oregon, probably in the Astoria 

 series Oligocene. 



TROCHOCYATHUS ZITTELI Merriarn 



Some forms of Trochocyathus zitteli Merriarn 1 resemble very closely 

 fSmilotrochus curtis Gabb. 2 Scores of specimens of T. zitteli have 

 been collected by Merriarn, Dickerson, and numerous field classes in 

 palaeontology at the same general locality as that indefinitely given as 

 the type locality of S. curtis, but not one specimen of this species has 

 been reported. It is therefore possible that the two are the game. 

 Gabbs type material consisted of only two very imperfect specimens 

 which cannot now be located for comparison, and the evidence seems 

 to be insufficient for placing T. zitteli in synonomy with S. curtis. 



i U. S. Geol. Surv., Monograph 39, 1900. 



a Geol. Surv. Calif., Palaeontology, vol. 2, 1869. 



Transmitted February 86, 1915. 



