ORISKANY SANDSTONE. 
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Platyceras ? 
Plate CXIII. Fig. 6. 
The specimen is a cast, too imperfect for determination; from the sandstone at 
Schoharie. 
Platyceras nodosum. 
Plate CXY. Fig. 1 - 6 ; and Plate CXYI. Fig. 1-4. 
Platyceras nodosus : Conrad, Annual Report on the Palaeontology of New-York for 1841, p. 50. 
“ Sab falcate, with numerous thick obtuse nodes. This is a cast in sand- 
“ stone, and the shell was probably covered with spines. Length two 
“ inches.” 
The above description appears to have been drawn from a cast in which the first 
volutions are wanting; a common condition of the specimens in the sandstone. 
Shell obliquely subovate : volutions contiguous, about two or three, very 
rapidly expanding from the apex ; summit of the spire on a plane with, 
or -a little above, the outer volution ; aperture round. 
Surface marked by round obtuse nodes and strong interrupted or tortuous 
lamellose strise. 
All the specimens observed are casts, with sometimes the impressions of the 
exterior. The nodes indicate the places of short strong spines on the surface of the 
shell. In nearly all the larger specimens the apex is broken off, so that a single 
volution or less is preserved. 
PLATE CXY. 
Fig. 1 a, b, & 2. Young specimens of this species, preserving about two volutions. 
Fig. 3 a, b, c. A young specimen which preserves the proper form of the shell. 
Fig. 4. A larger individual. 
Fig. 5. A larger specimen, preserving little more than a single volution. 
Fig. 6. A larger specimen of similar character with the preceding. 
It is not improbable that the "apex or first volutions become solidified as the shell advances 
in age, leaving no evidence of the existence of these parts in the cast. 
PLATE CXYI. 
Fig. 1 & 2. Casts of this species, preserving the usual form. 
Fig. 3 & 4. Yiew of the upper and lower side of the cast of a large individual. In this 
specimen, the nodes, either from weathering or extreme age and thickening of 
the shell, are less prominent than in the preceding. 
Geological position and locality. In the Oriskany sandstone : Albany and Scho¬ 
harie counties, and numerous other places in the State of New-York. 
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