Box 25, Folder 5: Paleontology Draft I 1853

Recptaculites Oweni

Freeport Ill - called "Honeycomb" & the "Honeycomb Limestone" makes the best quality of lime!

Found in the solid layers and also in the shaly or broken layers above.

Receptacutites Neptunii, DeFrance, Dic. Sci. Nat Vol 45 p 5. Hall, Pal. N. York Vol 1. p 68 pl. 24 fig 3. Cocinopora infundibuliformis Eaton, Geol. Text Book. C. Sulcuta, Owen (not of Goldfus) Geol. Report 1839.

Suborbicular, or depressed in the centre; surface presenting a series of quadrangular cells, within each of which is a vertical cylindric tube opening upwards; openings of the tubes note entirely circular.

- The upper surface presents a series of quadrangular opening made by the intersection of vertical lamillae, which cross each other in the direction of curved lines, like the peripheries of a series of circles of different diameters having distant centers. Tubes con= =stricted near the extremity.

D. 2 to 8 inches. L of tube, 0.10 to 0.50

Coscinopora Mineral Point

[ink sketch] d Omit this

b [ink sketch] mag.d

c [ink sketch]

a - surfaces b same magnified c tubes d ideal [illegible]

Receptaculites Neptunii

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[pencil sketch] a

Coscinopora Mineral Point.