BRACIIIOPODA. i-V.) 
Dalmanelia.l 
number of plications, with a convex ventral valve. In 0. pedinella this valve is 
flatter and its cardinal area is never so strongly elevated as in 0. uhiffieldi. 
Formation avd loculily.—Coxnuwn in the IIikLsou River group at Spring Valley and near Granger, 
Minnesota; Delaflokl, Wisconsin; Savannah, Illinois, and Graf, Iowa. 
Collectors.— 'E. O. Ulrich, John Kleckler, W. IT. Scofleld and the writers. 
Mus. Reg. Nos. 277, 429, 4094, 5549, 7762-77G4. 
Subgenus DALMANELLA Hall. 
1892. Dahnanella. Hall. Palasontology of New York, vol. viii, pt. i, p. 205. 
Original description: "Shells plano-convex or subequally biconvex. Pedicle 
valve usually the deeper, often gibbous, elevated at the umbo and arched over the 
cardinal area. Hinge-line generally shorter than the greatest width of the shell. 
In many of the species there is a more or less conspicuous, undefined median fold 
and sinus on the pedicle and brachial valves respectively. Surface covered with 
fine, rounded, bifurcating striae. 
"In the pedicle valve the teeth are quite prominent, thickened at their extremi- 
ties and supported by lamellae which are produced forward circumscribing a rather 
short suboval or subquadrate muscular area, which is more or less distinctly defined 
in different species and in different conditions of the shell. In Orthis meeki Miller, a 
somewhat ponderous, biconvex, multistriate variation of Orthis testudlnaria, it is 
clearly resolvable into adjustor and diductor scars, the latter bounding, but not alto- 
gether enclosing the impression of the adductors; the pedicle scar is also discernable. 
In the brachial valve the cardinal process extends forward as a ridge to the bases of 
the crural plates, where it is broadened and continued thence as a median ridge 
separating the muscular impressions. The inner surface of this process is divided 
by a faint median furrow which produces two lobes at the posterior extremity, and 
each of these lobes is again divided, making the process quadrilobate. Sometimes 
the inner divisions of the two main lobes have coalesced, producing a strong median 
lobe and thus making the process appear trilobate. In some species at maturity, and 
in others from abnormal growth, this process becomes a broad plug, which fills the 
entire delthyrial opening. The dental sockets are small, the crural plates often 
greatly elevated, ei^pecially in the plano-convex forms, and they are not usually 
produced into a ridge about the muscular area, but end abruptly. Muscular 
impressions quadruplicate, sometimes with radiating ridges extending from the 
lateral and anterior margins. 
" Shell substance finely fibrous and punctate." 
Species of this subgenus probably make their appearance as early as the Calcif- 
erous (0. electra Billings), but certainly in the Chazy group, and are also known to 
occur in all the intervening formations up to the close of the Devonian. 
