Bulletins of American paleontology Author:Cornell University Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Ervilia meyeri, u. sp. Plate I, fig. 7 Shell small, nearly equilateral, surface covered with numerous close-set raised lines becoming somewhat coarser near... more » the ventral edge. Beak low but pointed. Interior polished. Posterior muscular scar well defined, the anterior very faint. Cardinals rather strong ; laterals doubled in the left valve. Length 4 ; height 2.5 mm. Claiborne Sand bed, Tombigbee River, Ala. Named in honor of Dr. Otto Meyer, one our early workers in the Eocene. Akera lexana, n. sp. Plate II, fig. i Shell medium, substance extremely thin, surface smooth except some wrinkles where the body whorl meets the sunken spiral area. Strongly depressed ; whorls about five, very sharply defined at the apical end with a slightly reflected edge. Umbilical part bordered by a reflected edge. Length 13 ; breadth 10 mm. Lower Claiborne Eocene of Smithville, Tex. This is a new genus to our Eocene and rare no doubt on account of its very fragile shell. Several examples were obtained but all went to pieces on drying. Scobinella newtonensis, n. sp. Plate II, fig. 2 Shell rather solid, medium size ; whorls nine or ten ; apex slightly bent, embryonic whorls four in number in perfect specimens ; a raised line starting just below the suture on the next whorl, which becomes more prominent on the latter whorls, or roughly tuberculated ; the median part ofthe whorl starting with a row of spiral and strongly marked tubercles which gradually double and are somewhat inclined to the vertical axis ; just above this double series another appears with tubercles twice as long spirally as high ; the fascicular surface very concave, marked by three or four broad but dim spiral lines ; fasciole nearly semicircular ; body whorl ornamented with numerous coarse tubercles ...« less