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PALEONTOLOGY OF NEW-YORK. 
Fig-, i. View of the upper side of a large specimen. 
Fig. 1 a. The lower side of a smaller specimen, showing the broad umbilicus. 
I regard this species as exceedingly interesting, and as linking by a generic type (very 
rare in the lower rocks of this country) the lower, middle, and upper palaeozoic strata. 
Mr. Murchison records three species as occurring in the Llandeilo flags, in England and 
Wales; but this is the first and only individual in our lower strata, which I feel warranted 
in referring to the same genus. 
Position and locality. The specimens were found in a loose mass of the Calciferous rock, 
in Saratoga county. The character of the mass, and its association, leave no doubt of the 
true position of the fossil. {Cabinet of Lyman Wilder.) 
9. 1. MACLUREA SORDID A (n. sp.). 
Pl. III. Figs. 2, 2 a. 
Shell discoidal; spire not elevated; mouth slightly expanded; surface apparently smooth.. 
The specimens of this fossil usually appear in a weathered, worn and distorted condition, 
in the upper part of the rock. From their condition, it is not easy to determine their 
specific relations. 
From the circumstance that these fossils always present the oval form exhibited in the 
figures, Mr. Vanuxem has termed them Ellipsolites; but a careful examination induces 
me to refer them to the Genus Maclurea, typical specimens of which occur in the suc¬ 
ceeding rock. {State Collection.) 
10. 2. MACLUREA MATUTINA (n.sp.). 
PL. III. Fig. 3. 
Discoidal, involute ; spire not elevated ; umbilicus deep ; surface unknown, apparently 
striated. 
The fossils in this specimen, as is the case with nearly all the others in this rock, are 
obscure, both from the character of the rock, before alluded to, and from weathering by 
exposure. It is therefore with some hesitation that I characterize the two species above ; 
but as they may be of some service to the student in identifying the mass, and as the fact 
of their existence is also interesting, we offer them as they are usually seen. The rock in 
which they occur is lithologically a compact silico-magnesian limestone, which weathers 
with a greyish brown surface, and attains a coarse harsh structure. In the same rock are 
often seen a few fragments of Orthocerata, which, with the numerous individuals of the 
two species here described, render some of the thin layers highly fossiliferous. 
Position and locality. These fossils are usually found in the higher portions of the rock, 
at Canajoharie, and other places in the Mohawk valley. 
