p.6

Carditamera protracta, Conrad, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sc. vol 1. p 305; Medial Ter. Fos. p 65 pl. 37 fig 2

Trapezoidal, elongated, compressed, widely contracted from beak to base; dorsal & basal margins nearly parallel; ribs about 15, the middle ones triangular & crenated; posterior ribs rounded and having distant arched squamose coarse striae; summit of the beaks scarcely prominent above the hinge line.

L. 1.5- H 0.7
Medial Tertiary

Newbern N. Car.