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II.—On A New Genus and Species of Nautilus-Like Shell (Acanthonautilus Bispinosus) from the Carboniferous Limestone of Ireland

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

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The shell to which I have given the above name is at present unique. It was found, a few years ago, in a quarry at Clane, in the county of Kildare, where I had for some time been in search of Cephalopod shells. It was associated with characteristic species of Carboniferous Limestone fossils, among which the following Nautiloid shells may be mentioned, viz. Solenocheilus dorsalis, Phil., sp., Asymptoceras cyclostomus, Phil., sp., A. Foordi, Hyatt, and an undescribed species allied to the last-named one. The marginal spines, at first obscurely seen in the matrix, at once attracted attention; and although one was broken off and lost in the quarry débris, the other was fortunately found in the fragment of rock struck off from the shell, and was then carefully developed and attached to the latter. Naturally very diligent search has been made since its discovery, and a sharp look-out kept for any further specimens of this interesting species, but so far without any result.

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Original Aricles
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1897

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References

1 Geol. Surv. Illinois, V, Geol. and Palæont., 1873, p. 521, pl. xviii, figs. 2, 2a.Google Scholar

2 Geol. Surv. Texas, Fourth Annual Report, 1892 (1893)—Carboniferous Cephalopods (second paper), p. 466.Google Scholar

3 For a figure of this see Reeve, Lovell in Conch. Iconica, vol. xii, 1860, pl. iv, fig. 3.Google Scholar I have not access to the original source of the species.

4 Études Paléontologiques sur les Dépôts Jurassiques du Bassin du Rhône, pt. iv (Lias Supérieur); see also Catalogue of Fossil Cephalopoda in the British Museum, pt. ii, 1891, p. 204, ff. 36, 37.Google Scholar