Box 26, Folder 3: Paleontology Notes 7: Acephala: 3

[Aceph.?]

Laripes parilis, conrad, Am. Jour. Sc. 2 Ser. Vol. 5. p. 432 fig. 7

Lentiform inequilateral, not ventricose; length and height equal; summit slightly prominent; margins very regularly rounded.

L. 11.55 — H 0.55

Loripes? turgida, Conread, Proc. Ac. Nat Sc vol 3 p 293

Suborbicular, very thin and fragile, with minute concentric lines; beaks one dial; umbo and summit prominent; margins regularly rounded. L. 0.55

Eocene Tertiary Vicksburgh Miss

Loripes elevata Conrad, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sc. Vol 1 p 325; Med Ter. Foss. p 73 pl 41 fig 8

Suborbicular, elevated, thin, ventricode, smooth, not oblique; beaks medial; hinge marginal very oblique; posterior margin truncated, direct, very regularly rounded towards the base; anterior basal margins obliquely truncated; cardinal plates thin, arched, with an elongated channel anteriorly; cardinal teeth profoundly diverging

L. 0.6 H 0.6

Medial Tertiary

Neuse river below Newbern N.C.

Loripes eburnea, Conrad, Pro Ac. Nat Sc. Vol 3 p 293

Suborbicular, slightly oblique, convex, with minute closely arranged concentric lines, and a few larger impressed lines; posterior margin truncated, direct; anterior end and anterior basal margins regularly rounded; posterior basal margin obliquely truncated; beaks nearest the posterior end. L 0.6 H 0.6

Eocene Tertiary

Vicksburg, Miss.

Loripes elevata, Conrad, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sc. Vol. 1, p. 325

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