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BELEMNITES compressus. 
TAB. DXC .—fig. 4. 
Jr 
Spec. Char. Thick, straight, compressed, regularly 
tapering to a furrowed extremity ; furrows deep, 
two of them extending down the flattened sides 
further than the others ; cavity deep, its apex 
excentral ; base oval, not expanded. 
Syn. B. compressus. De Blainvitle , Mem. sur les 
Belemn. p. 84. pi. II./. 9. 
Distinguished from B. ellipticus of Miller by being 
much shorter, and from B. Gigas of De Blainville by 
the sulcated extremity. It has no furrow at the base, 
nor any indication of veins upon its surface. The septa 
are very numerous. 
An inhabitant of the Inferior Oolite. Our specimens 
are from near Scarborough, out of the gray Oolite below 
the coal grit, where they were accompanied by Saurian 
remains. 
