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IV.—On a New Species or Discites (Discites Hibernicus) from the Lower Carboniferous Limestone of Ireland

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

Arthur H. Foord
Affiliation:
British Museum (Natural History).
G. C. Crick
Affiliation:
British Museum (Natural History).

Extract

The specimen which forms the subject of the present communication was obtained by one of the writers from the Carboniferous Limestone, near Dublin. Although one side of the specimen is covered by matrix, yet the other side and the periphery are so splendidly preserved, and the shell has not been distorted during fossilisation, that the characters of the fossil can be accurately determined (see Woodcut, p. 254).

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Original Articles
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1893

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References

1 Nautilus (Discites) discors, F. M'Coy, Synopsis of the characters of the Carboniferous Limestone Fossils of Ireland, 1844, p. 17, pl. iii., fig. 5. See also Nautilus discors (M'Coy) de Koninck, L.—G., Faune du calcaire carbonifère de la Belgiqiie (Annales du musèe royal d'histoire naturelle de Belgique, Palæont. ser., vol. ii.), part i., 1878, p. 143, pl. xxx., fig. 8.Google Scholar

2 Nautilus discoideus, de Koninck, L.—G., op. cit., p. 133, pl. xxv. fig. 3.Google Scholar

3 Ellipsolites compressus, Sowerby, J., Min. Conch., vol. i. p. 84, pl. xxxviii, 1813.Google Scholar See also Discites compressus. Foord, A. H., Cat. Foss Ceph. Brit. mus., part 2, fig. 11, pp. 86 and 91.Google Scholar Nautilus (Discites) mutabilis, M'Coy, , op. cit. p. 18, pl. iii., fig. 7, is a synonym of Sowerby's species.Google Scholar