Geology and paleontology / by B.K. Emerson [and others].

Date:: [1910]

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Credit: Geology and paleontology / by B.K. Emerson [and others]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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but when the latter are cut away the walls of the vertically sectioned cones present a pinnate arrangement. The texture of the fossils, of whose organic nature we are thoroughly satisfied, is coarser and their color lighter than that of the black slate in which they are embedded. Compared with Miinsteria hcessii F.-Ooster (non Sternberg), the Swiss Eocene species mentioned under the generic description, Mye- lophycus curvatum is distinguished by its larger size and smaller in- ternal cones. Locality. — Woody Island, Kadiak, on the shore facing Chiniak Bay, Alaska. The same slab contains the types of Inoceramya con- cent rica. Collector. — W. H. Dali.