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Aldrich, Eocene Mollusca 



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Locality— OxQg^'s I,dg. marl at Bell's Ldg. and Gregg's 

 Ldg., Ala. River, Ala. 



Type. — Ala. State Museum at University, Ala. 



Teredo ringeiis, n. sp. PI. 2. Fig. 12. 



Shell substance thin, closed at the larger end like Kuphzts ; 

 body of shell with raised, rather acute rings parallel to each 

 other, and virtually at right angles to the longer diameter. 

 Other fragments are not so stongly marked. Length of type 

 specimen 37 mm. Average breadth 5 mm. 



Locality. — Sucarnochee clay bed, 3 miles south of Estelle, 



Ala. 



Type. — Alabama Museum, University, Ala. 

 Telllna estellensis, n. sp. PI. 2. Figs. 13, 14. 



Shell small, exceedigly thin, exterior smooth, except fine 

 growth lines ; these are stronger near the ventral margin ; in- 

 equilateral ; right valve with small laterals, larger in the oppo- 

 site valve ; pallial sinus large, rounded ; anterior somewhat 

 pointed ; posterior rounded. Length 13-15 mm. ; height 9-1 1 mm. 



Locality, — Sucarnochee beds, near Estelle, Ala. 



Type.- — Ala. Museum of Nat. History, University, Ala. 



Remarks. — This species is the same figured by Prof. Harris 

 (Bulletins Am. Pal., Vol. i, p. 182) as a cast. It is rather com- 

 mon but so very fragile it was almost impossible to procure a per- 

 fect example. 



Tellina cynoglossa Dall. 



This is the common species in the Woods Bluff beds. It 

 seems to be only a variety of Tellina subtriangzilaris Aldr., which 

 was described from half grown specimens, which is more regu- 

 larly rounded posteriorly and also lacks the fold seen in older 

 specimens. The full grown examples from Woods Bluff on the 

 Tombigbee River measure as much as 25 mm. in length 



Tellina bellslana, n. sp. PI. 2. Figs. 15, t6. 



Shell large, flat, thin ; nearly equilateral ; surface faintly 

 concentrically striate ; lines growing coarser on the anterior end ; 



