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PALEONTOLOGY OF NEW-YORK. 
56. 1. MURCHISONIA ABBREVIATA. 
Pl. VI. Fig. 7. 
Terete-conical ; length about twice the breadth ; whorls few, appressed, angulated ; 
marked by advancing and retreating strise. 
A single specimen of this shell was found at Chazy, but it was unfortunately lost after 
the drawing was made. It seems appropriately referred to the Genus Murchisonia, which 
includes the elongated Pleurotomaria-like shells, of which there are several species in the 
lower strata. 
Position and locality. In the lower fine-grained limestone. Chazy, Clinton county. 
Genus BUCANIA. 
[ Greek, /3 ux<xvt], a trumpet; from the form of the shell.] 
Character. Convolute ; spire equally concave on either side ; volutions in the same plane, 
all visible, outer one ventricose, inner ones usually angulated on the edge, concave on the 
ventral side ; aperture rounded-oval, somewhat compressed on the inner side by contact 
with the next volution, laterally and dorsally abruptly expanded. 
This genus is proposed to include several species of shells of a peculiar form, usually 
referred to Bellerophon, but from which they differ in having all the volutions visible, 
and gradually increasing in size. The Bellerophon cornuarietes of Sowerby ( Min. Conch. 
Tab. 469, fig. 2 ), will fall under this genus. At least six species are already known to me, 
and these are confined to the lower term of the system, none as yet having been observed 
in the higher strata, though the one quoted above from Sowerby is said to occur in the 
Mountain limestone. 
This genus differs from Porcellia, in being symmetrical, the volutions in the same axis, 
being equally expanded on either side, both sides presenting the same aspect, and the 
aperture corresponding to the axis of the shell. 
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57. 1. BUCANIA SULCATINA. 
Pl. VI. Figs. 10, 10 a. 
Bellerophon sulcatinus. Emmons, Geol. Report, pag. 312, fig. 4. 
Convolute; depth and width nearly equal, length a little greater; whorls closely 
appressed against each other, and angulated on the sides ; surface marked by longitudinal 
ridges, which are interrupted by obliquely transverse lines, the latter making a retral angle 
on the depressed dorsal line. These ridges are often subdivided into two or more undulating 
lines, and which, from being interrupted by the transverse lines, give the shell a beautiful 
