Bulletin No. 205 Series C, Systematic Geology and Paleontology, 59 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY

CHAKLES D. WALCOTT, DIRECTOR

THE

MOLLUSCA OF THE BUDA LIMESTONE

BY

GEORGE BURBANK SHATTUCK

WITH

AN APPENDIX

ON THE

CORALS OF THE BUDA LIMESTONE

THOMAS WAYLAND VAUGHAN

WASHINGTON

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

1903

CONTENTS.

Page.

Letter of transmittal, by T. W. Stanton .................................. 7

Preparatory note .----..-................,.........:..._................... 9

Historical review . . . ... .................................................... 9

Bibliography.............................._..........................'.. 11

Geology of the Bnda limestone..... .....--.....'-...---...-...--.-........ 12

List of species in Buda limestone.......---.-..-...--....-................ 14

Descriptions of species.................................................... 15

Mollusca ...... ._--.-._-.-.-------...-__..-.... ..-..'.-.......-....... 15

Pelecypoda.... .................-...................-.-..-------- 15

Pectinidse .................................................. .... 15

Limidse ................:...................................... 17

Pernidae....................................................... 19'

Pinnidae..................................................... 19

Spondylidffi--_---.-.......................................... 20

Ostreidae ......................... ............................ 20

Mytilidae.......... ...................'.............. ....... 23

Arcidse....................................................... 28

Trigoniidae .................................................. 23

Crassatellidse ................................................ 24

Cardiidae..................................................... 25

Pachymiidas .........:....................-.-.......- .--........ 26

Cyprinidae...-...........................-..-.'...-........... 27

Pholadomyidaa. -........-.........."-............................ 28

Anatinidae .-......-...-..-._-.-...-...-...---.-.....-...-.... 29

Gasteropoda............................... ........................ 30

Patellidaa.--.--.... ...............--................:........... 30

Plenrotomariidae. ............-.....-.-.:.-..................- 30

Trochidae.---.-.-.---------------.----:-----.---------- --..- 31

TnrriteUidsB........-..:.....-.........-....-.....--....-.... 31

Cerithiidse- ................................................... 32

Strombidae .. ........--.......-.-.....-.-.--....-.-.-....... 32

Cypraeidaa ..... ...................................... ......... 33

Fusidae ._......................_................. '.. .......... 33

Cephalopoda.............. .--..._.....-...----..---......-.---.-.. 34

Nautilidae..........----._-...-..-.-....-......--.-.-....-.-.. 34

Ammonoidea..._..........-.-....-...---,..'-.-...--..--..... 35

The corals of the Bnda limestone, by T. Wayland Vanghan........... 37

Plates......-......-....-...-...-.....-.---...-.-...---.--.---.--------.. 41

Index .............................. ...............-....---.--.--.-.----. 93

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ILLUSTRATIONS.

Page. 

PLATE I. Map of the region near Austin, Tex., showing exposures of Buda

limestone.. ................................................... 12

II. Pecten roemeri (Hill).._......................... 1............. 42

III. Pecten roemeri (Hill).-..-....-... ............................... 44

IV. Pecten roemeri (Hill)-..-...--....--....--....-----............. 46

V. Fig. 1, Pecten roemeri (Hill); 2-4, Pepten quinquecostatus (?) 

(Sowerby); 5, Pecten duplicicosta (?) Roemer; 6-8, Pecten texanus Roemer; 9, Lima sp.; 10, Lima wacoensis Roemer; 11, 

Lima shumardi sp. nov.; 12, Gervilliopsisinvaginata (?) (White). 48

VI. Pinna sp.......................................... .......... 50

VII. Pinnasp....................................................... 52

VIII. Figs. 1-3, Spondylus sp.; 4,5, Modiola (?) sp.; 6-8, Trigonia

einoryi Conrad .-...--.-.........._.-....--.. .................. 54

I.. Gryphsea mucronata Gabb ....--..-.-....-. .................... 56

X. Exogyra clarki sp. nov.:...-...............-................... 58

XI. Exogyra clarki sp. nov ........................... ............... 60

XII. Ptychomya ragsdalei (Cragin) ......-....-.....-......'...-....... 62

XIII. Fig. 1, Ptychomya ragsdalei (Cragin); 2-4, Cardium (Granocardium) budaense sp. nov.; 5-7, Cardium (Protocardia) texanum Conrad .-....-.---.------..-_-------.---_--'---.---..---. 64

XIV. Figs. 1-3, Cardium (Protocardia) vaughani sp. nov.; 4,5, Isocardia medialis (Conrad).___...________.__---._--._...____._. 66

XV. Figs. 1,2, Isocardia medialis (Conrad); 3-6, Pholadomya roemeri

sp. nov..-.....--..-.----.-------.------..--.-.----..---...-_.. 68

XVI. Figs. 1-3, Homomyaaustinensis sp. nov.; 4,5, Homomya vulgaris

sp. nov. .-.-----.-.-.-----.-----...-- --.--------.--.-.---.-..- 70

XVII; Homomya vulgaris sp. nov ................................... . 72

XVIII. Figs. 1,2, Anatina austinensis sp. nov.; 3, Anatina texana sp. nov. 74

XIX. Fig. 1, Patella sp.; 2,3, Trochus sp.; 4-6, Turritella budaensis sp. 

nov.; 7>8, Cerithium (?) texanum sp. nov.; 9, Fusus texanus 

sp. nov.; 10,11, Fusus sp :..'.................................. 76

XX. Pleurotomariastantoni sp. nov .................--...1.......... 78

XXI. Harpagodes shumardi (Hill)..................................... 80

. XXII. Cyprseasp..-------------,.--.--.-------------.------.--.----. 82

XXIII. Figs. 1,2, Nautilus texanus Shumard; 3, Nautilus hilli sp. nov... 84

XXIV. Figs. 1,2, Nautilus texanus Shumard; 3,4, Nautilus hillisp.nov.. 86

XXV. Figs. 1, 2, Barroisiceras texanum sp. nov.; 3, 4, Barroisiceras

hyatti sp. nov.-.--....--.........--....--..--..---.---..---.- 88

XXVI. Fig. 1, Orbicella (?) texana Vaughan; 2, 3, Coral sp............. 90

XXVII. Figs. 1-3, Parasmilia texana Vaughan; 4, 5, Trochosmilia (?) sp. 

indet.; 6, Orbicella (?) texana Vaughan; 7, 8, Leptophyllia 

sp. (No. 2); 9-11, Leptophyllia sp. (No. 1) ..;....._... .._____ 92

FIG. 1. Section of Buda limestone, Del Rio clays, and Fort Worth limestone, at Austin, Tex........................................... 13

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LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, 

UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY,

Washington, D. C., February 3, 1902.

SIR: The accompanying paper by Dr. George B. Shattnck on the 

Mollusca of the Buda limestone, with an appendix by Mr. T. Wayland Vaughan on the Anthozoa of the same horizon, records all that 

is known of the fauna of a limited formation constituting the highest

member of the Comanche series in Texas. I recommend its publica- /? tion as a bulletin.

Yery respectfully, T. W. STANTON,

Paleontologist. 

Hon. CHARLES D. WALCOTT,

Director United States Geological Survey.

THE MOLLUSCA OF THE BUDA LIMESTONE.

By GEORGE BURBANK SHATTUCK.

PREFATORY NOTE.

During the winter of 1893-94 the Johns Hopkins University came 

into possession of a valuable collection of fossils which Mr. Robert T. 

Hill, of the United States Geological Survey, had assembled during 

many years of geologic study in Texas. Among the various faunas 

represented in this collection the fauna of the Buda limestone--so 

called because of its typical development at Buda, Tex. presented 

an interesting problem to the author. Through the courtesy of Hon. 

C. D. Walcott, Director of the United States- Geological Survey, and 

Mr. Hill the author was enabled to accompany the latter during a 

portion of the field season of 1894, in order to collect from the Buda 

limestone in the vicinity of Austin, Tex.

The following contribution, which is the result of a study of the 

Buda limestone fauna, has been prepared under the supervision of 

Prof. William B. Clark, to whom, the author here expresses his deep 

obligation. He also extends his acknowledgments to Dr. T. W. 

Stanton, of the United States Geological Survey, for many valuable 

suggestions and for the use of type specimens, and to Hon. C. D. 

Walcott and Mr. Robert T. Hill, through whose courtesy the author 

was enabled to undertake this work. The late Prof. Alpheiis Hyatt 

was consulted regarding the ammonites.

Mr. T. Wayland Vaughan, of the United States Geological Survey, 

has prepared the concluding section on the corals.

HISTORICAL REVIEW.

The Buda limestone, although possessing considerable thickness 

(40 to 80 feet) and recording important events which took place at 

the close of the Lower'Cretaceous, is so concealed beneath younger 

beds that it remained for a long time unrecognized by the various 

geologists who worked in Texas. It was not until the year 1889 that 

Mr. Robert T. Hill described it and designated it by the name " Vola 

limestone," so called on account of a large and beautiful Vola which 

was present in considerable numbers in the formation. 05

In a second article 6 Mr. Hill gave a section in which he assigned

a A portion of the geologic story of the Colorado River of Texas: Am. Geologist, May, 1889, p. 8. 

bAnnot.checklistof the Cretaceous invertebrate fossilsof Texas: Bull. Qeol'. Surv. Texas, No.4, 

pi xlv.

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10 MOLLUSCA OF THE BUD A LIMESTONE. [NO. 205.

the Vola limestone this time referring to it as the " Shoal Creek 

limestone," because of its typical exposure in the limestone bluffs 

along Shoal Creek at Austin, Tex. to a place at the top of the 

Washita division of the Comanche series; that is to say, the topmost 

bed of the Lower Cretaceous, and correlated it with the Ostrea quadriplicata beds of Denison. In April of the same year Mr. Hill 

expressed the opinion a that the Buda limestone here speaking of it 

as the Vola or red chalk limestone, because of the red blotches found 

in it belonged to the Washita division, a series of strata deposited 

by continuous sedimentation during the first profound marine subsidence, that it was underlain by the Exogyra arietina clays and overlain by the Denison beds, that its fossils consisted of the characteristic 

Vola quinquecostata Sow. and an undescribed fauna, and that the 

material was a massive lime bed with oxidizing iron, the total thickness being 50 feet.

Toward the close of the year Mr. Hill published a section b of the 

Lower Cretaceous in which he showed that it belonged to the Lower 

or Grand .Prairie formation (Comanche series), with the Shoal Creek 

or Vola limestone at the top, possessing a thickness of 75 feet and 

underlain by the Exogyra arietina clays. Nothing further was published regarding the Shoal Creek limestone until 1893, when Profs. 

W. B. Clark c and F. W. Cragin (* described certain of its fossils.

The folio wing year Mr. Hill again published a description'2 of the Shoal 

Creek limestone, in which he pointed out the relations of the underlying and overlying beds in more detail, and indicated with a section 

the gradual thinning of the limestone from. Del Rio through Austin 

to Waco, where it disappeared. The red-colored blotches in the limestone, he concluded, were due to oxidation of the iron in minute 

glauconite grains. He also announced the discovery of foraminiferal 

remains and gave a list of fossils.

In 1897 Dr. T. W. Stanton published a comparative study of the 

Lower Cretaceous formations/ in which he discussed at length the 

features of the Comanche series and pointed out its relations to the 

other Lower Cretaceous formations. He also mentioned the Shoal 

Creek limestone and gave a summary of Hill's classification indicating 

its relative position.

The next publication referring to the Shoal Creek limestone appeared 

in 1898 as a bulletin of the United States Geological Survey, under

"Events in North American Cretaceous history, etc.: Am. Jour. Sci., April, 1889, 3d series, Vol. 

XXXVH, p. 290.

b Relation of the uppermost Cretaceous beds of the eastern and southern United-States: Am. 

Jour. Sci., Dec. 1889, Vol. XXXVIH, p. 470.

cMesozoic Echinodermata of United States: Bull. U. S. Geol. Surv. No.. 97, pp. 90-91, pi. XLIX, 

figs. 2, a-i.

dCont. to Invert. Pal. of Texas Cret.: Fourth Ann. Kept. Geol. Surv: Texas.

<*Geol. of parts of Texas, Ind. Ter., and Ark., etc.: Bull. Geol. Soc. America, vol. 5, pp. 317-321.

/A comparative study of the Lower Cretaceous formations and faunas of the United States: 

Jour. Geol., Vol. V, pp. 679-624. . .
SHATTUCK.] BIBLIOGRAPHY. 11

the joint authorship of Messrs. Hill and Vaughan.ffl In this paper 

the classification of the gryphseas of the Texas region was discussed, 

species were described, and figures were given. The geographic and 

stratigraphic distribution was also shown, and the probable relationship and evolution of the various forms of Gryphcea occurring in the 

Texas region were indicated. Before the close of the year the same 

authors published another paper, discussing the relation of the geology 

in certain parts of Texas to the flow of underground water. 6 In this 

paper the Shoal Creek limestone w'as described and its relation to other 

strata in the Cretaceous series was pointed out.

The latest publication dealing with the Shoal Creek limestone is by 

Mr. Hill. c In this paper Hill substituted the name " Budalimestone" 

for " Shoal Creek limestone," and summarized the leading features of 

the formation.

BIBLIOGRAPHY.

1889.

HILL, R. T. A portion of the geologic story of the Colorado River of Texas. 

Am. Geologist, Vol. Ill, 1889, p. 289.

 Annotated check list of the Cretaceous invertebrate fossils of Texas. 

Bull. Geol. Surv. Texas, No. 4,1889, pp. xiv, xxiii, xxvii, 50.

 Roads and the material for their construction in the Black Prairie region 

of Texas. Bull. Univ. Texas, 1889, pp. 36-37.

 Palaeontology of the Cretaceous formations of Texas, pt. 1,1889.

 Events in North American Cretaceous history illustrated in the ArkansasTexas division of the Southwestern region of the United States. Am. Jour. Sci., 

3d series, Vol. XXXVII, 1889, p. 290.

 Foraminiferal origin of certain Cretaceous limestones and the sequence 

of sediments in North American Cretaceous. Am. Geologist, Vol. IV, 1889, p. 176.

 Relation of the uppermost Cretaceous beds of the eastern and southern 

United States. Am. Jour. Sci., 3d series, Vol. XXXVIII, 1889, p. 470.

1893.

CRAGIN, F. W. Contribution to the invertebrate paleontology of the Texas 

Cretaceous. Fourth Ann. Rept. Geol. Surv. Texas,. 1893. pp. 226-227, 235-236, 

Pis. XLII and XLIV.

CLARK, W. B. Mesozoic Echinodermata of the United States. Bull. U. S. Geol. 

Survey No. 97, 1893, pp. 90-91, PI. XLIX, figs. 2a-i.

HILL, R. T. On the occurrence of artesian and other underground waters in 

Texas, eastern New Mexico, and Indian Territory, west of the ninety-seventh 

meridian; a report on irrigation, etc. Senate Ex. Doc. No. 41, Fifty-second Congress, first session, Pt; I, 1893.

1894.

HILL, R. T. Geology of parts of Texas, Indian Territory, and Arkansas adjacent to Red River. Bull. Geol. Soc. America, vol. 5, 1894, pp. 317-321, pi. 13, and 

fig. 2. ___________________________________________

"The Lower Cretaceous gryphseas of the Texas region: Bull, U. S. Geol. Surv. No. J51.

^Geology of the Edwards Plateau and Rio Grande Plain adjacent to Austin and San Antonio, 

Tex., with reference to the occurrence of underground water: Eighteenth Ann. Rept. U, S.Geol. 

Surv., Pt. H, pp. 193-316.

c Geology and geography of the Black and Grand prairies, Texas, etc.: Twenty-first Ann. 

Rept. U. 8. Geol. Surv. (for 1899-1900), Pt. VII, 1901, pp. 288-290.
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1897..

STANTON, T. W. A comparative study of the Lower Cretaceous formations 

and faunas of the United States. Jour. Geol., Vol. V, 1897, pp. 579-624.

1898.

HILL, B. T., and VAUGHAN, T. W. The Lower Cretaceous gryphseas of the 

Texas region. Bull. U. S. Geol. Survey No. 151,1898.

- Geology of the Edwards Plateau and Bio Grande Plain adjacent 

to Austin and San Antonio, Tex., with reference to the occurrence of underground 

waters. Eighteenth Ann. Bept. U. S. Geol. Survey, Pt. II, 1898, pp. 193-316.

1901.

HILL, B. T. Geography and geology of the Black and Grand prairies, Texas 

etc. Twenty-first Ann. Bept. U. S. Geol. Survey, Pt. VII, 1901.

GEOLOGY OF THE BUDA LIMESTONE.

The work of the author while in Texas was confined to collecting 

from the Buda limestone near Austin, while the task of 'determining 

the geologic relations of that formation and mapping its areal extent 

has been done by Mr. R. T. Hill. The author is, therefore, unable to 

speak regarding the geology of the Buda limestone, except as that 

information has been published. The following statement is consequently derived entirely from the description by Mr. Hill, given in , 

the Twenty-first Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey.

The Lower Cretaceous formations of Texas have been placed collectively in one group, called the Comanche series. The Comanche series 

is again divisible, beginning with the oldest, into the Trinity, Fredericksburg, and Washita divisions. The Washita division is in turn 

composed of several formations,'which vary in number and extent 

from one locality to another. The city of Austin, Tex., is located in 

the midst of the region in which the Buda limestone is best developed. 

There it is found typically exposed in two localities, one along Shoal 

Creek, on the northeastern border of the city, and the other at Buda, 

about 14 miles southeast of the city, on the International and Great 

Northern Railway. In this region the Washita consists of three formations. . These are, beginning with the oldest, Georgetown, Del Rio, 

and Buda. The Georgetown formation is composed principally of 

limestone; the Del Rio formation consists of an unctuous clay, and the 

Buda formation is also a limestone.

The Buda limestone first appears south of the Brazos River, where 

it is apparently the stratigraphic continuation of the Graysori marls, 

which occur north of the river. As the Buda limestone is traced 

southward from, the Brazos it becomes more clearly defined. This 

formation was first named the Vola limestone, and later designated 

the Shoal Creek limestone, but recently it was found that that name 

was preempted and it is now known as the Buda limestone. It has 

been defined by Mr. Hill as follows: a

The Buda limestone may be defined as the uppermost of the three formations of 

the Washita division throughout southern Texas, where it is also the final bed of

n Ttt-nnty-flf st Ann. Eept. U. S. Geol. Survey, Pt. VII, 1901, p. 288.
U. S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN NO-205 PL. I

US BtEN &CO.LITH.N.1

Geology by R.T.Hill 

andT.W. Vaughan. 

Topography by 

T. M. Ba'nnon and W. B. Corse

MAP OF THE REGJON NEAR AUSTIN .TEXASShowing exposures of Hud a Limestone 

ScaH-
SHATTUCK.] GEOLOGY OF THE BUDA LIMESTONE. 13

T. - . - ~ Base Buda limestone 

p^??gi53-ggi|| - - - Gryphrea mucronata.

^_J ' _L-'__l 4--=4 Thln arenaceous layers.

_ . Exogyra arietina.

the Lower Cretaceous, occupying the same position in the southern section relative 

to the series as do the Gray son marls of the northern section, the one probably 

being the seaward extension of the other.

The Buda limestone is best exposed in the steep cliffs of Shoal Creek, 

in the city of Austin, in the 

bluffs of Bbuldin Creek, and 

on the outer margins of Barton Creek Valley south of 

Austin. It is also found well 

developed at Buda, 14 miles 

southwest of the city. In this 

region the limestone is stratified in layers varying in thickness from 2 to 6 feet. As the 

strata vary somewhat in hardness and power to withstand 

erosion, they are affected diferently by the elements. Certain of them preserve a 

smooth surface, others exhibit a shattered and rubbly 

appearance', and still others 

break down into a fine powder. These last are apt to 

give place to recesses or caverns which retreat beneath 

overhanging bluffs of more 

obdurate material. The limestone when first fractured possesses a light yellowish drab 

ground color, specked with 

spots about the size of a coriander seed, but on weathering these little specks oxidize 

to a yellowish or red color, and 

cause the surface to appear as 

if it had been burned. On microscopic examination it has 

been found that these little 

spots are fossil foraminifera

fillpf] with a mineral «snh ^IG-^-'-Section of Buda limestone, Del Rio clays, and niieO. W1U1 a mineral SUD- Fort Worth limestone at Austin, Tex.

stance, possibly giauconite,

which on weathering oxidizes to red. The limestone as a whole 

appears to be made up more largely of foraminifera than any other 

in the entire Coinanche series.

The outcrop of the Buda limestone is not extensive. It is developed 

in a narrow band between the Del Rio clay below and the Eagle Ford

 B«se of. Del Rio clays.

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formation above, extending-from the Brazos to the Colorado and 

southward to the Rio Grande. Throughout this region it is found 

exposed in many places. In the region of Austin the formation is 

nearly 80 feet thick, and it increases in thickness southward, attaining on the Nueces 100 feet. Northward from Austin it decreases in 

thickness at the rate of about 2 feet a mile, until at Round Rock it is 

only 20 feet thick, on San Gabriel River 10 feet, at Moody about 5 

feet, and at Bosqueville, on the Brazos River, it is represented by a bed 

of limestone only 1 foot in thickness. North of the Brazos, as stated 

above, it merges with the Grayson marl and is no longer distinguishable as a limestone stratum.

Although the Buda limestone is rich in fossils the remains are poorly 

preserved and are often represented only by casts or molds. Many 

of these forms are also found in earlier members of the Cornanche 

series. The following is a list of the fossils of the Buda limestone 

which have been identified and described:

LIST OF SPECIES IN BUDA HMESTOM.

FORAMINIFERA.

Rotalia sp. 

Textularia sp.

ECHINODERMATA.

Hemiaster calvini Clark. 

PELECYPODA.

Pecten roemeri (Hill).

Pecten quinquecostatus ? Sowerby.

Pecten duplicicosta Roemer.

Pecten texanus Roemer.

Lima shumardi sp. nov.

Lima wacoensis Roemer.

Lima sp.

Gervilliopsis invaginata ? (White).

Inoceramus sp.

Pinna sp.

Spondyhis sp.

Ostrea sp.

Alectryonia sp. -

Gryphsea mucronata Gabb.

Exogyra clarki sp. nov.

Modiola? sp.

Cucullaea sp.

Trigonia emoryi Conrad.

Ptychomya ragsdalei (Cragin).

Cardium (Granocardium) budaense sp. 

nov.

Cardium (Protocardia) texanum (Conrad).

Cardium (Protocardia) vaughanisp. nov.

Pachymya austinensis ? Shumard. 

Isocardia inedialis (Conrad). 

Pholadomya roemeri sp. nov. 

Homomya austinensis sp. nov. 

Homomya vulgaris sp. nov. 

Anatina austinensis sp. nov. 

Anatina texana sp. nov.

GASTEROPODA.

Patella sp.

Pleurotomaria stantoni sp. nov.

Trochus sp.

Turritella budaensis sp. nov.

Cerithium ? texanum sp. nov.

Harpagodes shumardi (Hill).

Cypraea sp.

Fusus texanus sp. nov.

Fusus sp.

CEPHALOPODA.

Nautilus texanus Shumard. 

Nautilus hilli 3p. nov. 

Barroisiceras texanum sp. nov. 

Barroisiceras hyatti sp. nov.

ANTHOZOA.

Parasmilia texana, sp. nov. 

Trochosmilia (?) sp. indet. 

Orbicella (?) texana sp. nov. 

Leptophyllia sp. (No. 1). 

Leptophyllia-sp. (No. 2).
DESCRIPTIONS OF SPECIES.

MOLLTJSCA. 

PELECYPODA.

Genus PECTEN Miiller. 

PECTEN ROEMERI (Hill).

Pis. II-IV; PI. V, fig. 1.

Pecten (Vola?) roemeri Hill, 1889, Pal. of the Cret. Formations of Texas, Pt. 1,

PI. I. 

Pecten (Vola) roemeri Hill, 1889, Annot. Check List Cret. Invert. Fossils of

Texas: Bull Geol. Surv. Texas No. 4, p. 8.

Dimensions. Length, 15 cin. ; breadth, 14 cm.

.Description. Shell large, compressed, thick; margin scalloped, 

concavities of one valve receiving the convexities of the other; suboctahedral; equilateral, unequivalved; right valve subglobose, left 

valve slightly convex; hinge line straight, two- thirds length of shell, 

medial, symmetrical, reflected toward left valve; umbos opposite, 

medial; that of the. right valve prominent, that of the left depressed; 

ears equal, produced, conspicuous, decorated with radiating costse. 

Surface decorations consist of six major radiating ribs, including 

between them groups of two or three minor costre. In the region of 

the wings the costse are of uniform strength. Concentric undulations 

are also prominent and lines of growth well marked.

This Vola is very abundant in the Buda limestone, and suggested 

the name Vola limestone, by .which this formation was originally 

known. Mr. Hill, in discussing the Buda ("Shoal Creek") limestone 

in an early paper," referred to this form as Vola quinquecostata Sow.

Locality. Shoal Creek, Austin, Tex. ; Onion Creek, Buda, Tex.

This form has never been reported from any other formation.

Collections. Johns Hopkins University ; & United States National 

Museum.

"Events in North American Cretaceous history, etc.: Am. Jour. Sci., April, 1889, 3d series, Vol. 

XXXVII, p. 290.

& Concerning the specimens described in this paper, it may here be said that Mr. Hill collected 

those in possession of the Johns Hopkins University, while those in possession of the United 

States National Museum were in great measure collected by the writer for the- United States 

Geological Survey.

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PECTEN QUINQUECOSTATUS? (Sowerby). 

Pi. V, figs. 2-4.

Pecten quinquecostatus Sowerby, 1814, Min. Conch.. Vol I, p. 121, tab. 56, figs. 4-8. 

Pecten quadricostatus Sowerby, 1814, Min. Conch., Vol. I, p. 121, tab.56,figs. 1, 2. 

Janira quinquecostata d'Orb., 1846, Pal. Franc. Terr. Cret., Vol. Ill, p. 632, pi.

441, figs. 1-5. 

Janira quadricostata d'Orb., 1846, Pal. Franc. Terr. Cret., Vol. Ill, p. 644, pi.

447, figs.'1-7.

Dimensions. Length, 35 mm.; breadth, 4 cm.

Description. Shell medium to small; outline sinuous; right valve 

ventricose, with prominently elevated umbo; ears absent. The surface decorations consist of five prominent, radiating, trifid ribs, of 

which the middle individual is more elevated and conspicuous than 

either of the lateral members. Each of the spaces between the five 

trifid ribs is opcupied by two equal, less prominent ribs, which also 

extend from the umbo to the margin. All the specimens of left 

valves in the collection belong to immature individuals. They are 

slightly concave, bear six major radiating ribs, on the curved surface 

of which are three or four minor costee. The depressions between the 

major ribs are broad and contain two costse each.

The specific position of this shell has been subject to considerable 

dispute, and a variety of opinions have been expressed, by those who 

have described it, in regard to its correct systematic position. This 

confusion seems to be due to a variation in the number and strength 

of the minor costse. o ln determining this species the author inclines 

to refer it to Pecten quinquecostatus rather than to make it a distinct 

species. It is a common form in the Buda limestone.

Locality. Shoal Creek, Austin, Tex.; Onion Creek, Buda, Tex.

This species has been reported from the Washita limestone, the 

Edwards limestone, and the Upper Cretaceous beds of New Jersey.

Collections. Johns Hopkins University; United States National 

Museum.

PECTEN DUPLICICOSTA .(?) Roemer.

Pi. V, fig. 5.

Pecten duplicicosta Roomer, 1849, Texas etc., p. 398.

Pecten duplicicosta Roemer, 1852, Kreid. von Texas, p. 65, PI. VIII. fig. 2, a, b.

Description. Shell medium, polygonal; left valve very globose. 

Decorations consist of six ridges radiating from the umbo to the angles 

of the margin. These ridges are each traversed by three longitudinal 

ribs. Each of the spaces between the ridges is occupied by three 

conspicuous costse.

Roemer described his type specimen as having all the secondary 

costse equally developed, while in the specimen described here the 

ribs traversing the ridges are not so prominent as the costse located 

in the interspaces; moreover, the form here described is not so wide
SHATTUCK.] DESCRIPTIONS OF SPECIES. 17

in proportion to its length as thafofigured and described by Roeiner, 

but it appears to have suffered compression.

Locality. Shoal Creek, Austin, Tex.; Onion Creek, Buda, Tex.

This species occurs in the Edwards limestone.

Collection. United States National Museum.

PECTEN TEXANUS Roemer. 

Pi. V, figs. 6-8.

Pecten cequicostattts Roemer, 1849, Texas etc., p. 398.

Pecten texanus Roemer, 1852, Kreid. vein Texas, p. 65, PI. VIII, fig. 3, a, b.

Neithea texana Conrad, 1857, Rept. U. S. Mex. Bound. Surv., Vol. I, Pt. II, p. 151,

PI. V, fig. 2, a, b. 

Pecten texanus Gabb, 1861, Notes on Cret. Fossils, etc.: Proc. Acad. Sci., Phil.,

p. 365.

Dimensions. Length, 31 mm.; breadth, 35 mm.

Description. Shell medium, triangular; margin polygonal; left 

valve globose; umbo curved over hinge area; ears conspicuous; hinge 

line straight. Decorations consist of minute concentric striae and six 

prominent rounded ribs, radiating from the umbo to the angles of the 

margin; the broad spaces between them are each occupied by two 

equal, but subordinate, rounded costse, whose width is greater than 

that of the grooves separating them.

A young individual has the following appearance: Shell small; margin sinuous; outline triangular; left valve globose; umbo produced. 

Decorations consist of eighteen radiating costse, of which every third 

costa is more elevated than the two intermediate individuals. The 

right valve is slightly concave and decorated with twenty narrow, 

radiating ribs, whose disposition is regular.

In the adult specimens figured by both Conrad and Roemer the ribs 

are described as flattened. This, however, is not the case in these 

specimens.

This appears to be a rare form in the Buda limestone.

'Locality. Shoal Creek, Austin, Tex.; Onion Creek, Buda, Tex.; 

Fish Pond Point, Texas; Bartons Creek, Travis County, Tex.

This species is common throughout the Washita division.

Collection. United States National Museum.

LIMID^E. 

Genus LIMA Bruguiere.

LIMA SHUMARDI sp. nov. 

'>!. V, fig. 11.

Dimensions. Length, 25 mm.; breadth, 26 mm. 

Description. Shell small, thin, oblique, globose; inequilateral, posterior half produced; margins serrated; posterior margin rounded;

Bull. 205 03 2
18 MOLLUSOA OF THE BUDA LIMESTONE. [NO. 205.

anterior margin almost straight; ventral and dorsal margins subparallel; umbo, hinge line, and wings missing. The decorations consist, 

of about 30 low, narrow ribs radiating from the nmbo and projecting 

over the margin, causing the serrated appearance described above.. 

These ribs, which are more pronounced over the posterior than over 

the anterior region, are separated by broad, flat depressions which 

carry a varying number of radiating hair-like costse. Lines of growth, 

although visible, are not conspicuous as a decorative feature.

This form resembles L. wacoensis, but may be distinguished from 

it by the greater number of large ribs and the presence of the hairlike costse.

Locality. Uncertain; probably Austin, Tex.

Collection. United States National Museum.

LIMA WACOENSIS Roemer. 

PI. V, fig. 10.

Lima wacoensis Roemer, 1849, Texas etc., p. 399.

Lima wacoensis Roemer, 1852, Kreid. von Texas, pp. 63-64, PI. VIII, figs. 7, a, b.

Lima wacoensis Conrad, 1857, Eept. U. S. Mex. Bound. Surv.,Vol. I, Pt. II, p. 151,

PI. V, fig. 4, a, b. 

Lima leonehsis Conrad, 1857, Rept. U. S. Mex. Bound. Surv.,Vol. I, Pt. II, p. 151,

PI. V, fig. 3, a, b, c.

Dimensions. Length, 15 mm.; breadth, 14 mm.

Description. Shell small, thin, oblique, globose; outline subovate; 

inequilateral; ventral and dorsal margins subparallel; anterior margin 

slightly curved; posterior margin elongate and rounded; umbos 

.approximate; hinge line straight and oblique; wings small, undecorated, concave margins. Decorations consist of about 20 small ribs, 

radiating from the umbo. These ribs are of unequal size, being 

larger over the domed region of the shell and smaller on either side.

This form is not very common.

Locality. Shoal Creek, Austin, Tex.; Onion Creek, Buda, Tex. 

This form has also been found in the Comanche Peak chalk, the 

Washita limestone, and the Del Rio clays. 

CoUeciion. United States National Museum.

LIMA sp. 

PI. v. fig. 9.

Description. This form is represented by. one very imperfect cast; 

of the interior of the right valve. Shell medium; inequilateral;; 

dorsal margin straight, oblique, inflected at an angle of 90 degrees;; 

shell most strongly arched in this region, sloping away in all directions; posterior, ventral, and anterior margins sinuous. About 20 

delicate radiating ribs are indicated on this cast.

Locality. Onion Creek, Buda, Tex.

Collection. United States National Museum.
BHATTUCK.] DESCRIPTIONS OF SPECIES. 19

PERNID^E.

Genus GERVILLIOPSIS Whitfield. 

GERVILLIOPSIS INVAGINATA (?) White.

PI. V, fig. 12.

Dalliconcha invaginata White, 1887, New Generic Forms of Cret. Mol., etc.; 

Proc. Acad. Sci. Phil., p. 35, PL II, figs. 4, 5.

Description. Shell narrow, depressed, inequilateral; greatly prolonged posteriorly; moderately thick; shaped and curved much like 

the blade of a scythe; central ridge running down its entire length 

midway between the margins; hinge line straight, exhibiting in the 

imperfect specimen about twelve crenulations, which rapidly increase 

in length until those directly under the beak are about 2 cm. long and 

of reduced strength; umboslowand terminal; decorations obscure.

The only specimens of this form are casts in such an imperfect state 

of preservation that they can only questionably be referred to the 

above-named species. '

Locality. Shoal Creek, Austin, Tex.

This form is also found in the Marietta and Fort Worth beds of 

northern Texas. '

Collection. United States National Museum.

Genus INOCERAMUS Sowerby. 

' INOCERAMUS sp.

Dimensions. Length, 42 mm.; breadth, 57 mm.

Description. Shell medium; margin not visible; general outline 

appears to be subovate; inequilateral, anterior portion slightly produced; somewhat ventricose; hinge line straight and situated obliquely 

to long axis; umbo prominent, produced, curved slightly forward; 

located at anterior end of hinge line, ears wanting. Decorations consist of plications and striations parallel with lines of growth.

This form appears to be very rare in the Buda limestone. The 

only specimen of this species is a cast of the interior right valve.

Locality. Onion Creek, near International and Great Northern 

Railroad crossing, Travis County, Tex.

Collection. United States National Museum.

PINNID2E.

Genus PINNA Linnaeus. 

PINNA sp. 

Pis. VI, VII.

Description. Shell elongate, subtriangular; increasing rapidly in 

breadth from the pointed anterior to the rounded posterior end; bread th 

not less than 6 cm., length not less than 16 cm. A preserved shell frag-
20 MOLLUSCA OF THE BUDA LIMESTONE. ' [NO. 205.

ment is situated near the posterior end of the right valve and bears 

on the surface equidistant, longitudinal furrows, while the cast of 

the inner surface of the left valve shows growth lines converging at 

the anterior end. These ridges are less conspicuous over the posterior 

portion of the valve.

In the Buda limestone, Pinna is a common form, but preserved 

almost entirely as casts. " Of the eight specimens at hand, only two 

possess fragments of a shell, and these are too poorly preserved to be 

of use in specific determination.

Locality. Shoal Creek, Austin, Tex. ; Onion Creek, Buda, Tex.

Collections. Johns Plopkins University; United States National 

Museum.

Genus SPONDYLUS Linna3us. 

SPONDYLUS sp. 

PI. VIII, figs. 1-3.

Dimensions. Length, 40 mm. ; breadth, 5 cm.

"Description. Shell medium, moderately thick, ventricose, inequilateral, produced anteriorly; unibos prominent, bent forward. Decorations consist of wavy, radiating ribs of medium strength, bearing 

at intervals bosses, which probably are the remnants of former spines.

To this description may be added that of certain smaller forms 

which are probably the young of this species. The shell is thin, 

Small, globose; margin fluted; outline subovate; inequilateral; 

inequivalved; lower right valve produced in direction of anterior 

margin ; large scar at point of attachment. The only decorations are 

fine, irregular, radiating lines, every sixth one of which is strengthened and bears the remnants of spines. The upper valve is also produced anteriorly, and bears decorations analogous to those on the 

right valve.

All of these forms are badly mutilated and it is therefore impossible 

to determine the species definitely.

Locality. Shoal Creek, Austin, Tex.

Collections. Johns Hopkins University; United States National

Museum.

OSTKEID^S.

Genus OSTREA Linnaeus.

OSTBEA Sp.

Description. This genus is represented by a fragment of a right 

valve, of which only the inner surface is visible. The oyster was 

large, and possessed near the ventral margin a conspicuous concave 

muscle impression. The margin is scalloped and the surface is smooth.

Locality. Shoal Creek, Austin, Tex.

Collection. United States National Museum.
SHATTUOK.] DESCRIPTIONS OF SPECIES. 21

Genus ALECTRYONIA Fischer. 

ALECTRYONIA sp.

Description. Shell medium, thick, corrugated; margin with the 

characteristic alectryonian fluting. The ribs, some of which show 

the bifid habit, are strong and sharp and radiate from the umbonal 

portion of the valve.

As only a portion of one valve is present, it is impossible to accurately determine this species.

Locality. Uncertain, probably ShOal Creek, Austin, Tex.

Collection. United States National Museum.

Genus GRYPHJ2A Lamarck. 

GRYPHJEA MUCRONATA Gabb.

PI: IX.

Gh*yphceapiteheri Roemer (not Morton), 1849, Texas, etc., pp. 394-395. 

Gryphcea pitcheri Roemer, 1852, Kreid. von Texas, pp. 73-74, PI. IX, fig. la, b, c. 

Gryphcea pitcheri var. navia (in part) Hall, 1856, Rept. Expl. and Surv. R. R.

from Miss. River to Pacific, Vol. Ill, Pt. IV, p. 100. 

Gryphcea pitcheri var. navia Conrad (in part), 1857, Rept. U. S. Mex. Bound.

' Snrv., Vol. I, Pt. II, p. 155. 

Gryphcea pitcheri,0-wen (not Morton), 1860, Second Rept. G-eol. Surv. Arkansas,

pi. 7, fig. 6. 

Gryphcea mucronata Gabb, 1869, Geol. Surv. Cal., Palaeontology, Vol. II,, pp.

274-275. 

Ostrea pitcheri Coquand (in part), 1869, Mon. du Genre Ostrea Terr. Cretace, p.

40, PI. IX, figs. 9-12. 

Gryphcea navia (Conrad in part) White, 1884, Fourth Ann. Rept. U. S. Geol.

Surv., p. 302, PI. XLIX, figs. 3-6. 

Gryphcea mucronata Hill and Vaughan, 1898, Bull. U. S. Geol. Surv. No. 151, pp.

63-65, Pis. XXIV-XXX.

Dimensions. Length, 35 mm.; breadth, 4 cm.

Description. Shell laterally subtrihedral; margin straight; inequivalved; inequilateral; lower valve very globose and thick in umbohal 

region, gradually thinning toward the ventral margin; beak prominent, submedial, slightly bent posteriorly; hinge line straight; ligamental fossa narrow, deep, curved; inside of shell smooth; anterior 

and posterior margins prominently elevated, the latter more than the 

former, imparting to the form a compressed aspect in the direction of 

its length. Surface decorations consist of undulating lines of growth 

more or less elevated at their margins, and a deep groove extending 

from beak to ventral edge, a little anterior to the posterior margin. 

Right valve subcircular, decorated externally with concentric lines 

of growth.

This is a common form at the base of the Buda limestone.
22 MOLLUSOA OF THE BUDA LIMESTONE. [NO. 205.

Locality. Shoal Creek, Austin, Tex.; Onion Creek, Bnda, Tex.

Hill and Vaughan, who have worked out this form with great care, 

state that 

Gryphcea mucronata occurs in greatest abundance in the upper portion of the 

Del Rio (Exogyra arietina) beds and in the base of the overlying Shoal Creek 

limestone from the Brazos southward to the Guadalupe. It is well shown in 

Shoal and Barton creeks, near Austin. North of the Colorado it occurs abundantly in the Grayson beds overlying the Main street limestone, as near Handley, 

a few miles east of Fort Worth, and northward toward Red River at Denison. 

It also occurs in the Trans-Pecos region and as far west as Sonora, according to 

Gabb.«

Collection. United States National Museum.

Genus EXOGYRA Say.

EXOGYRA CLARKI sp. nov.

Pis. X, XI.

Dimensions. Length, 72 mm.; breadth, 105 mm.

Description. Shell large, somewhat thicker in umbonal region than 

at margins; outline elliptical to oval; inequivalved; inequilateral; 

lower valve very globose, elongated in the direction of its breadth, 

compressed in the direction of its length; umbo distinctly recurved, 

adherent, interior of shell smooth, as deeply concave as surface is 

convex; muscle impression subcentral. Concentric with and a little 

below the periphery is a broad, shallow groove which is produced by 

the sudden expansion of the margin. This groove receives the margin of the upper valve. The decorations consist of concentric lines 

of growth with undulating margins; as the crest of each undulation 

disappears beneath' that of the one just preceding it, irregular ribs 

are produced which radiate from the umbo and distribute themselves 

over the surface. The upper valve presents a warped appearance, as 

if it had suffered compression in the direction of its length; interior 

surface smooth; muscle impression subcentral; hinge line straight; 

exterior surface shows concentric and elevated lines of growth, which 

constitute its only decoration.

This species differs from. Exogyra costata Saj^ in being less ponderous and broader in proportion to its length, and from Exogyra sinuata 

var. americana Marcou in being smaller, more convex, and in rising 

less abruptly from the margin in the umbonal region. It is easily distinguished from Exogyra ponderosa by the fact that it is far less 

ponderous and possesses growth lines which are more rugged and 

sinuous at their margins.

A few specimens of this species have been found in the Buda 

limestone.

Locality. Shoal Creek, Austin, Tex.

Collection. United States National Museum.

« Bull. U. S. Geol. Survey No. 151,1898, pp. 64-65.
BHATTUCK.] DESCRIPTIONS OF SPECIES. 23

MYTILIDJB. 

Genus MODIOLA Lamarck.

o

MODIOLA (?) sp.

PI. VIII, figs. 4,5.

Description. Shell medium, slightly inflated; margin absent. Decorations consist of pronounced undulations approximately parallel with 

the lines of growth, so disposed that series of three or four concentrate themselves into one ridge, which is more prominent and less 

curved than any one of the separate individuals.

All the specimens are fragmentary casts of the external surface.

Locality. Onion Creek, Buda, Tex.

Collection. United States National Museum.

ARCTD^S.

Genus CUCULL JEA Lamarck. 

CUCULL^EA sp.

.Dimensions. Length, 85 mm.; breadth, 63 mm.

Description. Shell large, inequilateral, posterior end greatly produced; ovate-triangular, ventricose; posterior margin subtruncate; 

ventral margin extensive, slightly curved; anterior margin short, 

sharply curved; umbos very strong and conspicuous; situated at 

anterior end of form, bending forward and inward; both muscle 

impressions strong; pallial line entire; cast shows faint indications 

of radial ribbing.

This forms appears to be rare. This collection possesses three 

internal casts. It bears a striking resemblance to Cucutlcea terminalis Conrad: Kept. U. S. Mex. Bound. Surv., Vol. I, Pt. II, p. 148, 

PL IV, figs. 2, a, b.

Locality. Shoal Creek, Austin, Tex.; Onion Creek, Buda, Tex.

Collection. United States National Museum.

TRIGONIID^E.

Genus TRIGONIA Bruguiere.

TRIGONIA EMORYI Conrad. 

PI. VIII, fig. 6-8.

Trigonia emoryi Conrad, 1857, Kept. U. S. Mex. Bound. Surv., Vol. I, Pt. II, p. 

148* pi. 3 fig. 2, a, b, c.

Dimensions. Length, 6 cm.; breadth, 4 cm.

Description. Shell medium, thick, very much swollen about- the 

anterior region; posterior end greatly produced; anterior margin falling away rapidly with a bold curve; posterior and ventral margins
24 MOLLUSCA OF THE BUDA LIMESTONE. ' [NO. 305.

absent; umbos subterminal, approximate, slightly produced, recurved; 

muscle impression large, subcentral. The decorations consist of 

thirty or more strong, curved tubercled ribs becoming indefinite posteriorly. These ribs change direction in passing over the area, so as 

to form a chevron-like arrangement, and after changing direction 

again, pass over the escutcheon.

The specimens of this species are almost entirely confined to casts. 

The above description has been made from a wax impression, supplemented by the anterior fragment of a shell.

Locality. Shoal Creek, Austin, Tex.; Onion Creek, Buda, Tex.; 

Bartons Creek, Austin, Tex.

This form has also been reported from the Lower Washita.

Collection. United .States National Museum.

CRASSATELLID^E.

Genus PTYCHOMYA Agassiz. 

PTYCHOMYA RAGSDALEI (Cragin).

PI. XII, PL XIII, fig. 1.

Pholadomya ragsdalei Cragin, 1895, Des. Invert. Fossils from Comanche series 

of Texas, Kansas, and Indian Territory: Fifth Ann. Pub., Colorado Coll. 

Studies, pp. 58-59.

Description. Shell medium to large, subovate, depressed; inequilateral, somewhat produced posteriorly; hinge line broad and slightly 

curved; umbos low, directed forward; two cardinal teeth directed 

backward, one posterior lateral tooth; mantle entire. Decorations 

consist of three systems of ribs. The one most extensive and conspicuous occupies the broad middle portion of the shell; its ribs, 

about twenty-five or thirty in number, radiating from beak to margin 

and carrying numerous tubercles. The second system, situated in 

front of the first, consists of short curved ribs which take their origin, 

not from the.umbo, but from the anterior margin of the first system, 

and produce with it the effect of chevrons, with the angle directed 

toward the umbo. The third system, being very narrow, is less conspicuous than either of the others, is located at the posterior margin, 

and consists of strong corrugations, originating in the same manner 

as the second system, but differing from it in being V-shaped, .with 

the apex turned away from the beak.

This appears to be a rather common form, but is poorly preserved, 

the specimens being represented only as casts. The description was 

made from wax impressions.

Locality. Shoal Creek, Austin, Tex.; Onion Creek, Buda, Tex.

This form is also found in the Main Street limestone at Denison.

Collections. Joans Hopkins University; United States National 

Museum.
SHATTUCK.] DESCRIPTIONS OF SPECIES. 25

CARDIIDJE.

Genus CARDIUM Linnssus.

Subgenus GRANOCARDIUM Gabb.

CAKDIUM (GRANOCARDIUM) BUDAENSE sp. nov.

PI. XIII, fig. 2-4.

Dimensions. Length, 45 mm.; breadth, 55 mm.

Description. Shell medium, thin, cordate, slightly inequilateral; 

anterior portion somewhat produced; very globose, especially toward 

the dorsal region, sloping from here abruptly posteriorly and more 

gently anteriorly and ventrally; hinge line slightly curved; umbos 

conspicuous, produced, incurved, located a little posteriorly, to the 

center of the hinge line; anterior muscle impression strong, posterior 

impression larger, but less conspicuous. Surface decorations consist 

of numerous smooth, radiating ribs, separated by narrow grooves, 

from which arise alternate rows of coarse, long spines and minute 

granules.

This form differs from Cardium (Granocardium] sabulosum Gabb 

by possessing only one row of smaller tubercles between the large, 

while sabulosum possesses two and three rows of smaller tubercles 

between the large.

Locality. Shoal Creek, Austin, Tex.; Bouldin Creek, Austin, Tex., 

contact with Eagle Ford shales; Onion Creek, Buda, Tex.

Collections. Johns Hopkins University; United States National 

Museum.

Subgenus PROTOCARDIA Beyrich. 

CARDIUM (PROTOCARDIA) TEXANUM Conrad.

PL XIII, figs. 5-7.

Cardium (Protocardia) texarium Conrad, 1857, Rept. U. S. Mex. Bound. Surv., 

Vol. I, Pt. II, p. 150, PL VI, fig. 6, a, b. c.

Dimensions. Length, 86 mm.; breadth, 87 mm.

Description. Shell small to very large, thick, very globose, slightly 

inequilateral; anterior portion somewhat produced; umbones prominent, produced, curved slightly downward and forward; posterior 

margin slightly truncated; anterior and ventral margins rounded; 

toward the posterior, shell slopes more rapidly than toward either the 

ventral or anterior margins. Decorations consist of about fifteen 

radiating ribs, roughly parallel with the posterior margin, and the 

remainder of the shell (about four-fifths) is covered with coarse concentric undulations parallel with the lines of growth and gradually 

increasing in strength toward the margin. In large specimens these 

undulations carry on their surfaces faint longitudinal striations.
26 .MOLLUSCA OF THE BUD A LIMESTONE. [NO. 205.

This species is rather common in the Bucla limestone.

Locality. Shoal Creek, Austin, Tex.; Bartons Creek, Travis 

County, Tex.; Onion Creek, Buda, Tex. This form has also been 

found in the Comanche Peak chalk and the Washita limestone.

Collection. United States National Museum.

CARDIUM (PROTOCARDIA) VAUGHANI sp. nov.

PI. XIV, fig. 1-3.

Dimensions. Length, 6 cm.; breadth, 65 mm.

Description. Shell medium, moderately thick, cordate, slightly 

inequilateral; very globose; umbos prominent; anterior margin 

truncated; posterior and ventral margins slightly curving, uniting at 

an obtuse angle; muscle impressions deep. Decorations consist of 

thirty or more fine, radiating ribs confined to the posterior region and 

occupying about one-quarter of the shell surface, the remaining threequarters being almost smooth.

This form differs from Cardium liillanum in being truncated anteriorly, in possessing a larger number of ribs, and in having the 

remainder of the shell smooth.

Locality. Not indicated.

Collection. Johns Hopkins University.

PACHYMYID^E.

Genus PACHYMYA Sowerby. 

PACHYMYA AUSTINENSIS (?) Shumard.

Pachymya austinensis Shtiinard, 1859, Trans. Acad. Sci. St. Louis, Vol. I, pp.

604-605. 

Pachymya austinensis White, 1879, Cont. to Invert. Palae. No. 1, Cret. Fossils of

West. States and Terr.: Eleventh Ann. Rept. U. S. Geol. and Geog. Surv.

Terr., p. 298, pi. 8, figs. 1, a, b, and pi. 5, figs. 7, a, b.

Pachymya? austinensis Hill, 1889, Annot. Check List Cret. Invert. Fossils of 

Texas: Bull. Geol. Surv. Texas No. 4, p. 15.

Description. The following is Shnmard's original description: 

"Shell very large, length more than double the width and less than 

double the thickness; greatest width near the center, where the shell 

is very gibbous; subangulated diagonally from the posterior side of 

the beak to the anal extremity and sloping to the margins; posterior 

slope broad; sides constricted anteriorly by a broad, shallow depression, which commences some distance below the beaks and extends 

obliquely downward and backward to the base; superior and inferior 

margins subparallel; buccal end very short, narrowly rounded; anal 

end obliquely truncated, gaping, angulated at extremity; pallial margin concave in the middle, rounded before and very gently convex 

posteriorly; beaks nearly.terminal, flattened, incurved, approximate; 

surface marked with irregular, concentric lines of growth.

"Length, 6.30 inches; width, 2.30; thickness, 3.64."
BHATTXTCK.] DESCRIPTIONS OF SPECIES. 27

The specimens of this species are too fragmentary to permit of a 

positive specific determination. They, however, most strongly resemble PacJiymya austinensis Shumard, and are therefore questionably 

referred to that species. As it is impossible to describe forms as 

poorly preserved as those at the disposal of the author, he has taken 

the liberty to quote the original description made by Shumard. The 

form described by Shumard came from the Fort Worth beds below 

the Buda limestone.

Locality. Shoal Creek, Austin, Tex.

Collections. Johns Hopkins University; United States National 

Museum.

CYPRINXD^E.

Genus ISOCARDIA Lamarck. \

ISOCARDIA MEDIALIS (Conrad). 

PI. XIV, figs. 4, 5; PI. XV, figs. 1, 2.

Cardium mediale Conrad, 1857, Kept. U. S. Mex. Bound. Surv., Vol. I, Pt. II, p. 

149, PI. IV, fig. 4, a, b. . ' -

Isocardia (?) medialis Hill, 1893, Pal. Cret. Form. Texas: Proc. Biol. Soc.Washington, Vol. VIII, pp. 31-32, PI. II, figs. 4, 5, and PI. Ill, fig. 6.

Dimensions. Length, 6 cm.; breadth, 6 cm.

Description. Shell medium to very large, thick, very globose, subcircular; equivalved; inequilateral; anterior and posterior margins 

subtruncate; ventral margin profoundly and irregularly curved; 

hinge line curved; teeth, two strongly developed cardinals and one 

posterior lateral in each valve; ligament external; ligamental grooves 

deep; umbos prominent, produced, curved downward and forward; 

anterior muscle impression strong and deep; posterior weak and 

large, not often visible on poorly preserved specimens. The surface 

of the shell is decorated with fine concentric striations.

The majority of the specimens of this species are preserved as casts, 

from two of which impressions of the hinge area have been obtained, 

thus allaying the doubt expressed by Mr. Hill in his description. 

Certain of the casts vary slightly from the type in possessing less 

prominent beaks. One large specimen is less globose than one would 

expect, considering the size, and has probably suffered compression, 

as suggested by Mr. Hill in the description of the same species from 

the Glen Rose beds.

Locality. Shoal Creek, Austin, Tex.; Bouldin Creek, Austin, 

Tex., contact with Eagle Ford shales; Onion Creek, Buda, Tex.; 

north of Waters 1£ miles, Austin and Northwestern Railroad; 

Williamsons Creek, near Travis County, Tex. This form has also been 

reported from the Comanche Peak chalk.

Collections. Johns Hopkins University; United States National 

Museum.
28 MOLLUSCA OF THE BUDA LIMESTONE. [NO. 205.

Genus PHOLADOMYA Sowerby.

PHOLADOMYA ROEMERI sp. nov.

PI. XV, figs. 3-6.

Dimensions. Length, 8 cm. ; breadth, 7 cm.

Description. Shell large, very globose, inflated anteriorly, becoming less so ventrally, depressed posteriorly; inequilateral; prolonged 

posteriorly; margin truncated anteriorly, oblique, describing a wide 

curve ventrally and dorsally; hinge line straight, slightly inclined 

backward; umbos inflated, conspicuous, produced, curved downward 

and forward, and located at anterior end of hinge line. Decorations, 

as indicated by the cast, consist of radiating ribs which extend from 

a line a little behind the umbonal ridge to the anterior margin. The 

remainder of the shell is smooth. The ribs consist of series of tubercles arranged in rows extending from umbo to margin, the space 

between two contiguous tubercles being about' equal to the diameter 

of the tubercle itself.

This collection possesses two casts of this species, from which the 

description has been made. The form resembles Cardiwn sancti-sabix. 

Roemer, but differs from it in having the post-umbonal region more 

inflated, in being more truncated anteriorly, in the greater acuteness 

of the anterior- ventral marginal angle, and in the oblique curve of the 

ventral margin from this point backward.

Locality. Shoal Creek, Austin, Tex. ; Onion Creek, Buda, Tex.

Collection. United States National Museum.

Genus HOMOMYA Agassiz.

J3OMOMYA AUSTINENSIS Sp. 110V. 

PI. XVI, figs. 1-3.

Dimensions. Length, 7 cm. ; breadth, 5 cm.

Description. Shell medium, some what globose ; equivalved; inequilateral ; produced posteriorly ; anterior margin short, slightly curved ; 

ventral margin gently curved; posterior margin not whole in specimen, 

probably gaping; dorsal margin straight, subparallel with ventral 

margin; umbos conspicuous, elevated, globose, curved downward, 

inward, and slightly forward, situated near anterior end of shell. The 

decorations consist of concentric growth lines of about equal strength. 

This form may be easily distinguished from H. vulgaris by the fact 

that it is much shorter and broader in proportion to its thickness. It 

is also much more compressed.

Locality. Shoal Creek, Austin, Tex.

Collection. Johns Hopkins University.
SHATTUCK.] DESCRIPTIONS OF SPECIES. 29

HOMOMYA VULGARIS Sp. HOV.

PI. XVI, figs. 4-5; PI. XVII.

Dimensions. Length., 104 mm.; breadth, 48 mm.

Description. Shell large, thin, elongate-ovate, globose; equivalved; 

inequilateral; greatly produced posteriorly; margin straight, anterior margin very short, slightly curved; ventral margin prolonged, 

extending backward with a long, gentle curve; posterior margin 

oblique downward, joining the ventral margin with a bold curve; 

dorsal margin straight, subparallel with ventral; umbos very globose, 

elevated, approximate, in contact, curving inward, downward, arid 

slightly forward; situated at the anterior end of shell; anteriorly 

closed; posteriorly gaping; posterior portion produced and curved 

upward. The decorations consist of concentric lines of growth varying in intensity.

This form is longer and thicker than H. austinensis in proportion

to fits breadth. * 

This form, which is very common in the upper portion of the Buda

limestone, is poorly preserved and has usually suffered considerable

deformation. 

Locality. Shoal Creek, Austin, Tex.; Bouldin Creek, Austin,

Tex., contact with Eagle Ford beds; Onion Creek, Buda, Tex.

Collections. Johns Hop kins University; United States National

Museum.

ANATINIDJE.

Genus ANATINA Lamarck.

ANATINA AUSTINENSIS sp. nov. 

PI. XVIII, figs. 1,2. ^

Dimensions. Length, 75 mm.; breadth, 38 mm.

Description. Shell medium, thin, elongate-ovate, somewhat globose; equivalved; inequilateral; anterior end greatly produced; 

umbos low, curved backward and downward, removed from the posterior end a distance equal to one-third the long diameter of the shell; 

ventral margins slightly curved and in contact, anterior and posterior 

margins about equally rounded, gaping; slight concavity in side of 

form immediately under uinbo. The decorations consist of concentric undulations parallel with the lines of growth. This form may be 

distinguished from A. texana on account of its smaller size, lack of 

the pronounced depression in front of the umbos, as well as by the 

fact that the umbos are.situated nearer the anterior end.

The collection possesses one specimen of this form, which is in a 

very poor state of preservation.

Locality. Shoal Creek, Austin, Tex. .

Collection. United States National Museum.
30 MOLLUSCA OF THE BUDA LIMESTONE. [NO. 205.

ANATINA TEXANA sp. nov. 

pi. xvm, fig. 3.

Dimensions. Length, 10 cm.; breadth, 55 mm.

Description. Shell large, ovate, slightly globose; equivalved; inequilateral; posterior region more contracted and more sharply 

rounded than anterior; umbos subcentral, produced, bent backward and downward; margins in contact ventrally, gaping at either 

end; cardinal margin concave at posterior side of beak, sloping away 

gently anteriorly; ventral margin slightly concave immediately under 

the umbos, subparallel with dorsal margin. Surface of shell slightly 

concave below the umb6s; deep groove bending downward and backward, located just in front at the base of the umbos; surface shows 

faint concentric ridges parallel with lines of growth.

This form is larger than A. austinensis. It has a pronounced depression in front of the umbos, and the umbos are situated in about the 

middle of the dorsal side.

The only specimen of this form is an imperfect cast.

Locality. Shoal Creek, Austin, Tex.

Collection. United States National Museum.

GASTEROPODA.

PATELLID^E. .

Genus PATELLA Linnaeus.

PATELLA sp.

Pi. XIX, fig. l.

Dimensions. Height, 5 mm.; breath, 17 inin. 

Description. Shell small, compressed, conical; apex central and 

erect; aperture circular; diameter, 19 mm. Decorations consist of

fine concentric lines crossed by radial ridges bearing much-weathered 

tubercles, concentrically arranged about the apex.

The collection possesses a single specimen of this form.

Locality. Shoal Creek, Austin, Tex.

Collection. Johns Hopkins University.

PLEUROTOMAKIID2E.

Genus PLEUROTOMARIA de France.

PLEUKOTOMARIA STANTONI sp. nov. l

PI. XX.

Dimensions. Height, 65 mm.; breadth, 80 mm.

Description. Shell large, elevated, having the form of a broadbased cone; umbilicated; suture distinct; whorls few, increasing 

rapidly and regularly in size; aperture not present; slitband groove-
BHATTUOK.] DESCRIPTIONS OF SPECIES. 31

like, narrow, traceable along the surface of each whorl, midway 

between the upper and lower margins; short, transverse ribs converge backward toward the groove; those below are thickly set, 

comparatively inconspicuous, and bear three tubercles each; those 

above are pronounced, less thickly placed, and bear likewise tubercles; spaces between these ribs broad, each one offsetting a rib of the 

underlying series; lower margin of each whorl bound with a revolving cord-like ridge bearing tubercles; under surface of body-whorl 

decorated with revolving ridges on which are tubercles so arranged as 

to give the effect of transverse ribs converging toward the center.

The internal cast of this form resembles that of Pleurotomaria 

austinensis Shumard, but the shell may be readily separated from it 

by the fact that in P. stantoni the decoration is very rugged and 

ornate, and the fine revolving lines present in P. austinensis are 

absent.

Locditlj. Shoal Creek, Austin, Tex. ; Bartons Creek, Travis County, 

Tex. ; Onion Creek, Buda, Tex.

Collection. United States National Museum.

TROCHID^E. 

Genus TROCHUS Linnaeus.

TEOCHUS sp. 

PL XIX, figs. 2, 3.

Dimensions. Height, 15 mm. ; breadth, 17 mm.

Description. Shell small, pyramidal, moderately elevated; whorls 

four, slightly globose, increasing in size regularly and slowly; aperture and surface decorations wanting.

This species is represented in the collection by one small imperfect 

cast. The specific determination is therefore impossible.

Locality. Shoal Creek, Austin, Tex.

Collection. Johns Hopkins University.

Genus TURRITELLA Lamarck.

TURRITELLA BUDAENSIS Sp. nOV. 

PL XIX, figs. 4-6.

Dimensions. Breadth, 10 mm.

Description^ Shell medium, elevated, spireform; whorls numerous; 

sutures conspicuous; imperf orate; aperture not fully preserved ; outer 

lip thin. Decorations consist of four revolving ridges bearing tubercles. In the higher regions of the spire these ridges are uniformly 

developed, but in the adult portion of the shell the two middle ribs 

are more emphasized than those on either side; the spaces between
32 MOLLUSC A OF THE BUDA LIMESTONE. [NO. 205.

are occupied with hair-like lines, of which one or two are slightly 

larger than the others.

This form differs from both T. seriatim-granulata Roemer and 

T. planilateris Conrad, in having four in place of five ribs, and from 

the latter in having the two middle ridges most conspicuous. The 

presence of four tubercled ribs, instead of six, provides a ready means 

of separation from T. marnochi White.

Locality. Shoal Creek, Austin, Tex.; Bouldin Creek, Austin, Tex., 

contact with Eagle Ford shales; Bartons Creek, Travis County, Tex.; 

Onion Creek, Buda, Tex.

Collections. Johns Hopkins University; United States National 

Museum.

CEBITHIID2E.

Genus CERITHIUM Adanson, c 

CEEITHIUM (?) TEXANUM sp. nov.

PI. XIX, figs. 7, 8.

Dimensions. Breadth, 10 mm.

Description. Shell medium; spire elevated; whorls more than six; 

form narrow, imperforate; whorls small; aperture missing, canal at 

the anterior extremity. Decorations consist of numerous transverse, 

slightly curved ribs, each one of which is transformed into a tubercle 

'at. the upper part by means of a constriction; these tubercles often 

are a direct continuation of the ribs, but may at times alternate with 

them.

This form appears to be rare in the Buda limestone, for the collection contains but two specimens; one is an imperfect shell and the 

other is a portion of an external cast. The generic determination is 

therefore doubtful.

Locality. Shoal Creek, Austin, Tex.; Bouldin Creek, Austin, Tex.

Collections. Johns Hopkins University; United States National 

Museum.

STROJVIBID^E.

Genus HARPAGODES Gill.

HARPAGODES SHUMARDI (Hill).

PI. XXI. 

Pterocera shumardi Hill, 1889, Pal. Cret. Form. Texas,, PI. II.

Dimensions. Height, 115 mm.; breadth, 107 mm.

Description. The following is Hill's original description: "Shell 

cylindrical, subfusiform, smooth, with outer lip expanded and flattened into a conspicuous wing; apex pointed; columella not seen, 

canal reflected as in dotted lines, but destroyed in chiseling specimen 

from massive stone in which it was embedded. Whorls eight, the.
SHATTUCK.] DESCRIPTIONS OF SPECIES. 33

lower being two-thirds the length of the shell; sutures slight; wings 

three, ribbed or fingered in the specimen figured, but there are indications that there were formerly two more, making five in all; margin 

is strongly indented between the termini of the fingers; surface 

marked by strong parallel lines of growth." ' -

This form is rather common in the Buda limestone.

Locality. Shoal Creek, Austin, Tex. ; Onion Creek, Buda, Tex.

Collections. Johns Hopkins University; United States National 

Museum.

CYPR^EIDJE.

Genus CYPRJEA Linnaeus.

CYPK^EA sp.

PI. XXII.

Dimensions. Height, 7 cm. ; breadth 65 mm.

Description. Shell medium, low, spherical, imperf orate; whorls 

.four or five; globose; aperture long, narrow slit-like ; outer lip broad, 

expanded, and extending from the aperture at almost a right angle; 

body- whorl very large, embracing about four-fifths of the preceding 

whorl; no decorations visible.

This appears to be a rare species in the Buda limestone, as only one 

specimen is present in the collection. The description has been made 

from an internal cast.

Locality. Shoal Creek, Austin, Tex.

Collection. Johns Hopkins University.

Genus FUSUS Lamarck.

FUSUS TEXANUS sp. nov. 

PI. XIX, fig. 9.

Dimensions. Height, 67 nun. j breadth, 14mm.

Description. Shell moderately large, elevated, turreted; sutures 

deep; whorls few, convex, increasing in size regularly and slowly; 

imperf orate; greater part of aperture missing; anterior siphoniccanal long (23 mm.), deep. Decorations consist of well-marked and 

equal revolving ridges crossed by a few, prominent transverse ribs, 

which in the body whorl are quite elevated at the suture line, but 

gradually die out as they pass over the whorl.

This species appears to be rare in the Buda limestone, for only half 

of an external cast is present in the collection. The description has 

been made from a wax impression.

Locality. Shoal Creek, Austin, Tex. ; Onion Creek, Buda, Tex.

Collection. Johns Hopkins University.

Bull. 205 03 3
34 MOLLUSOA OF THE BUDA LIMESTONE. [NO. 205.

Fusus sp.

PI. XIX, figs. 10, 11.

Dimensions. Breadth, 13 mm.

Description. Shell small, elevated, conical; whorls convex, five or 

six in number; body-whorl large, globose, carrying a central ridge; 

imperforate; sutures deep; aperture not distinct, probably oval; 

possesses an anterior canal; internal cast shows distinct, revolving 

lines on the under side of the outer lip. "

This form is represented in the collection by one cast.

Locality.- Shoal Creek, Austin, Tex.; Bouldin Creek, contact with 

Eagle Ford shales; Onion Creek, Buda, Tex.

Collection. United States National Museum.

CEPHALOPODA. 

NAUTILID^E.

Genus NAUTILUS Linnaeus. 

NAUTILUS TEXANUS Shumard.

PI. XXIII, figs. 1, 2; PI. XXIV, figs. 1, 2.

Nautilus texanus Shumard, 1859, Trans. Acad. Sci. St. Louis, Vol. I, p. 590. 

Nautilus texanus Hill, 1889, Annot. Check List Cret. Invert. Fossils of Texas:

Bull. Geol. Surv. Texas No. 4, pp. 21, 43, 50. 

Nautilus texanus Cragin, 1893, Cont. Invert. Pal. Texas Cret.: Fourth Ann.

Rept. Geol. Surv. Texas, p. 236. 

Not Nautilus texanus Gabb, 1864, Geol. Surv. California, Palaeontology, Vol. I,

p. 59, PI. IX, fig. 3, a, b.

Description. Size varies from small to rather large; laterally compressed; sides slightly convex; dorsal curve abrupt; umbilicus circular, shallow, distinct; volution subovate; anterior portion of 

aperture absent; posterior portion semielliptical, deeply excavated 

by preceding volution; longest diameter 10 cm.; width in broadest 

section 4 cm., broadest portion situated a little below the middle of 

aperture; septa moderately concave forward; sutures on leaving the 

umbilicus are directed forward for a short distance, then turn with a 

sharp curve and run backward for a slightly greater distance, turning again, this time with a broader curve; they run forward once 

more for a distance about equal to their previous, backward course 

and pass over the dorsuni with a wide curve; retrosiphonate; siphuncle 

continuing backward to preceding septum, situated in dorso-A7entral 

plane, a little to ventral side of middle. Decorations consist of 

numerous simple, flat ridges which pass from the umbilicus forward, 

then turn with a wide curve backward for a short distance and pass 

over the dorsum with a sharp curve.

Locality. Shoal Creek, Austin, Tex. This form has been reported 

from the limestone Fort Worth.

Collection. Johns Hopkins University.
SHATTUOK.] DESCRIPTIONS OF SPECIES. 35

NAUTILUS HILLI sp. nov.

PI. XXIII, fig. 3; PI. XXTV, figs. 3, 4.

Description. Size varies from small to medium; subovate; compressed; dorsuin boldly rounded; umbilicus, medium, circular, small; 

aperture not complete, increasing gradually in size; posterior portion semielliptical, deeply excavated by preceding volution; longest 

diameter measures about 105 mm.; greatest width, a little below center; septa moderately concave forward; sutures on leaving the umbilicus are directed forward for a short distance, then turn with a sharp 

curve and run backward for a slightly greater distance, turning again, 

this time with a broader curve; they run forward once more for a distance about equal to their previous backward course and pass over 

the dorsum with .a wide curve; siphuncle situated in dorso-ventral 

plane a little below the middle. The shell is without decorations and 

is smooth except for minute growth lines just distinguishable.

In this form the septa are more widely separated along the dorsum 

than in Nautilus texanus. External decorations are also absent.

Locality. Shoal Creek, Austin, Tex.

Collection. United States National Museum.

AMMONOIDEA.

Genus BARROISICERAS (?) Grossouvre. 

BARROISICERAS TEXANUM sp. nov.

PI. XXV, figs. 1, 2.

Dimensions. Longest diameter, 9 cm.; diameter of umbilicus, 12 

mm.; convexity, 2 cm.

Description. Shell medium, subovate, compressed; umbilicus deep, 

medium, sides gently rounding to surface; body chamber incomplete, 

poorly preserved, increasing gradually in size, passing at least halfway around whorl; greatest thickness of shell about one-third distance 

from dorsal to ventral margin. As ribs pass from umbilicus over 

whorl they become somewhat curved and obscurely tubercled, and on 

the venter develop a low, oblong tubercle. Ribs 28 or more to the whorl. 

Sutures as a whole not extremely complex; as far as visible on specimen consist of a ventral superior and inferior lateral and two auxiliary 

lobes and an external lateral and three auxiliary saddles; of these the 

ventral lobe is the most complex in outline; the superior lateral less 

so; inferior lateral and auxiliaries progressively less complicated and 

rapidly decreasing in size until they disappear as mere notches; of 

the saddles the external is most sinous in outline, having a conspicuous notch in the center; lateral saddle slightly wavy; auxiliaries 

decreasing rapidly in size.

This species is represented by a single poorly preserved specimen.
36 MOLLUSCA OF THE BUDA LIMESTONE. [NO. 205.

Only fragments of the shell now remain-adhering to the internal cast, 

and nowhere is the surface preserved. The suture lines appear to 

have suffered somewhat from solution.

Locality. Little Bear Creek, Hays County, Tex.

Collection. United States National Museum.

BARROISICERAS HYATTI sp. nov. 

PI. XXV, figs. 3, 4.

Dimensions. Longest diameter, 4. cm.; diameter of umbilicus, 8 

mm.; convexity, 15 mm.

Description. Shell small, compressed; umbilicus deep, medium; 

sides sloping gently to surrounding surface; greatest thickness of 

shell about one-third distance from dorsal to ventral margin. As ribs 

pass from umbilicus over whorl they develop a slight double curve, 

carrying obscure tubercles, and on the venter develop a low, oblong 

tubercle. Suture not very complex; consists of ventral, superior, 

inferior lateral, and two auxiliary lobes and external, lateral, and 

three auxiliary saddles, ventral and superior lateral saddles of about 

equal complexity; inferior lateral and auxiliary lobes of progressively 

less strength and finally dwindle to mere notches; external and lateral 

saddles somewhat wavy in outline, but auxiliaries reduced to simple 

curves.

This species is represented by a fragment of an internal cast about 

an inch in length. ,A small portion of the shell still adheres to the 

cast, showing a smooth and undecorated surface.

Locality. Shoal Creek, Austin, Tex.

Collection. United States National Museum.
THE CORALS OF THE BUD A LIMESTONE.

By T. WAYLAND VAUGHAN

ANTHOZOA.

PAEASMILIA TEXANA sp. nov.

PI. XXVII, figs. 1-3.

Coralhim short, subcornute; cross section elliptical, somewhat 

curved in the plane of the shorter transverse axis. Base not preserved intact, but evidently small.

Greater diameter of calice, 14 mm; lesser diameter of calice, 10 mm; 

height of corallmn, 15.5 mm.

The costse correspond to all cycles of septa, and are regularly alternately larger and smaller in size, the larger rather prominent. The 

edges are usually acute, both edges and sides granulate. No recognizable epitheca on the outside of the corallum. Septa in four complete cycles, reckoning six as the fundamental cycle. The margins 

are somewhat exsert. They are so-called entire; show no dentations, 

but some obscure crenations. The septal faces show striations, with 

granulations along their courses; the striae are fine and alternate in 

position, i. e., the striae on opposite sides of a septum do not stand 

opposite each other, but alternate with each other. The septal constitution, as interpreted from the striae, is of ascending trabeculse, 

with an area of divergence about corresponding in position with the 

wall. No pali could be discovered on any septum, the larger septa 

being directly continuous to the columella. The members of the first 

and second cycles and some of the third reach the columella. There 

is some dissepimental endotheca, and apparently occasional dissepiments exist between the costse. The calicular fossa is moderately 

deep, not very narrow. The columella is very well developed, vesicular.

Locality. Shoal Creek, Texas.

Type. In the United States National Museum.

Eemarks. The only other species of Parasmilia from the Cretaceous of Texas is P. austinensis Roemer, a from the Edwards limestone,

aUeber erne durch die Hiiuflgkeit Hippuriten-artiger Charniden ausgezeichnete Fauna der 

obei-turonen Kroido von Texas. Mit 3 Tafeln: Palaeontologisclie Abhandlnngen, Vol. IV, pt. 4, 

Berlin, 1888, p. 284, PI. XXI, Figs la, Ib.

37
38 COEALS OF THE BUDA LIMESTONE. [NO. 205.

near Austin. A most striking difference between the two species is, 

the costse in Roemer's species are equal in size, while in P. texana 

they alternate most pronouncedly.

. TEOCHOSMILIA (?) sp. indet.

PL XXVII, figs. 4, 5.

This species is represented by a single broken specimen, from \vhich 

one can not make out sufficient detail to determine the genus. The 

specimen is 19 mm. high; the broken base has a greater diameter of 

8 mm.; the greater diameter of the calice is about 15.5 mm., and 

the lesser 10 mm. or slightly more. The corallum is very nearly 

straight; the calice is apparently inclined to the vertical axis, the 

shorter transverse axis not lying in a horizontal plane. Wall, solid; 

costse well developed, corresponding to all septa, regularly alternating in size. The larger costse are tall, narrow, and thin, with sharp 

edges. Over the costse are many granulations. This is the extent of 

the detail that can be described.

Locality. Shoal Creek, Texas.

Type. United States National Museum.

CORAL sp.

PI. XXVI, figs. 2, 3.

A fine, large, simple coral, whose size and form are shown by the 

figures. The whole of the interior of the corallum has decayed, 

therefore the genus can not be determined.

Locality. Shoal Creek, Texas.

Specimen figured. Johns Hopkins University.

OBBICELLA (?) TEXANA sp. nov. 

PI. XXVI, fig. 1; PI. XXVII, fig. 6.

Corallum forming rather large masses, as much as 140 mm. high 

and more than that much across. The corallites are small, the usual 

diameter being between 1 and 2 mm.; they are crowded or not, the 

distance between adjacent corallites being in some cases as great as 

the diameter of the corallites. The costse are prominent and join the 

corallites one to another. The usual number of septa is 20, 10 

small and 10 large; they are much thicker at the wall than in the 

costal or inner portion. The lateral faces bear rather tall, erect 

spines. Exotheca present; endotheca rare. Columella poorly developed, composed of a few processes from the inner ends of the septa.

Locality. Shoal Creek,- Texas.

Type. Johns Hopkins University.

Remarks. The specimens referred to this species are embedded in 

a hard yellow limestone, the condition of preservation being such
VATIOHAN.] ANTHOZOA. 39

that it is impossible to describe them in detail. There is a possibility 

that the species may be a Steplianocc&nia. This species might be 

confused with Astroco&nia guadalupw Roemer.^ The latter species, 

according to Roemer's generic reference, would have a styliform 

coluniella, but his description of this part of the skeleton is not 

explicit. A. guadalupcz is an Edwards limestone fossil, as Roemer 

states, and the specimens have been changed into black flint. Flints 

are found only in the Edwards limestone in Texas.

LEPTOPHYLLIA sp. (No. 1.) 

PI. XXVII, figs. 9-11.

This specimen is fragmentary, being broken across the top. The 

transverse outline is not exactly but is approximately circular; the 

diameter of the upper broken end is about 20 mm.; the height of the 

Specimen is about 14 mm. The. outside of the corallum is not preserved in its original condition. No scar of detachment was seen. 

There appears to be no well-developed wall; the outer ends of the 

septa have a discontinuous coating over them that in part is probably 

epithecal in character. The septa are very numerous, thin, crowded, 

and extremely perforate. Nine septa were counted in the space of 

5 mm. Synapticula are numerous, and apparently there are also 

some dissepiments. There is no columella. A considerable number 

of the larger septa reach the axial space.

Locality. Shoal Creek, Texas.

Specimen. In the United States National Museum.

LEPTOPHYLLIA sp. (No. 2.)

PI. XXVII, figs. 7, 8.

The single specimen of this species is good, but not perfect. The 

chief difficulty in treating the species is that one specimen is not sufficient to give an adequate idea of all the essential specific characters.

The corallnm is simple, irregular in shape, low, with an elliptical 

cross section. The base is not well preserved, but the corallum is 

apparently attached and the base is probably moderately large.

Greater transverse diameter, 20 mm.; greater diameter of. calice, 

16.5 mm.; lesser diameter of calice, 13.5 mm.; height of corallum, 

11 mm.

Through an apparent deformity, the calice became constricted at 

a certain height above the base, so that the transverse diameters of 

the calice are not so great as the greatest diameters of the corallum. 

The figures show these features.

Neither true theca nor pseudotheca is present. There appears to be 

some epitheca. Synapticula are abundant between the peripheral

"Kreidebildungen von Texas tmd ihre organischen Einschliisse, Bonn, 1852, p. 87, PI. X, 

fig. 8, a,b.
40 COEALS OF THE BUDA LIMESTONE. [NO. 205.

ends of the septa. The septa are crowded, not very thick; as nearly 

as could be made out, in five cycles, six systems; the fifth cycle may 

not always be complete. Only a portion of the calice is well preserved. 

The septal faces are granulate; septal perforations fairly abundant, 

especially on the inner portions of the larger septa. Synapticula are 

rather abundant, and there may be, though I am not certain, an occasional dissepiment. There is no developed columella; the septa of the 

first, second, and third cycles, and some of the fourth, meet in the 

axial space.

Locality. Shoal Creek, Texas. 

. Specimen described and figured. United States National Museum.

This species differs from LeptopTiyllia sp. (No. 1) by being elliptical 

in cross section and having less perforate septa. The number of 

septa to 5 mm. is the same for both species. They may in reality 

belong to the same species, but such can not be proved from the 

material at my disposal.
PLATE II.

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PLATE II.

Pecten roemeri (Hill). 

Reduced.

Pago.

15

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PECTEN ROEMERI (HILL),
PLATE III.

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PLATE III.

Pa-re.

Pecten roemeri (Hill)........--.-...--.-..--.---.......................... 15

Reduced. .

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PECTEN ROEMERI (HILL),
PLATE IV.

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PLATE IV.

Page,

Pecten roemeri (Hill).........--'-.----------..--.-.............._........ 15

Reduced.

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PECTEN ROEMERI (HILL).
PLATE V.

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PLATE V.

Page.

Fig. i. Pecten roemeri (Hill) ..--...-.-....--....-.-. ......--..-.-..---.. 15

Figs. 2-4. Pecten quinquecostatus (?) (Sowerby)..-...........--.-.--..... 16

Fig. 5. Pecten cluplicicosta (?) Roemer ...........;....................... 16

Figs. 6-8. Pecten texamis Roemer......................................... .17

Fig. 9. Lima sp..---...-..--...-...-----...-..--.-,.........---....---... 18

Fig. 10. Lima wacoensis Roemer. ....^............................. .^.... 18

Fig. 11. Lima shnmardi sp. nov .......................................... 17

Fig. 12. Gt-ervilliopsis invaginata (?) (White) ............... ...^.......... 19

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PECTEN, LIMA, GERVI LLIOPS1S.
PLATE VI.

Bull. 205 03 4 49
PLATE VI.

Page. 

Pinna sp-.....-...---...-^...-..---.-..--..-.-........--.--.......-..-.... 19

Reduced.

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PINNA SP.
PLATE VLT.

51
PLATE VII.

Page. 

Pinna sp ...................................^............................ 19

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PLATE VIII.
PLATE VIII.

Page. 

Figs. 1-3. Spondylussp--.-.--.-----. ..................................... 20

Figs. 4,5. Modiola (?) sp............................... ......I........... 23

Figs. 6-8. Trigonia emoryi Conrad....................................... 23

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SPONDYLUS, MODIOLA, TRIGONIA.
PLATE IX.

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PLATE IX.

Page. 

Gryphaeanmcronata G-abb ................................................ 21

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\

GRYPH/EA MUCRONATA GABB.
PLATE X.

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PLATE X.

Page. 

Exogyra clarki sp. nov... ..^............................................. 22

58
EXOGYRA CLARKI SP. NOV.
PLATE XL

59
PLATE XI.

Page. 

Exogyra clarki sp. nov.....,.--...-....-.............--_-..._.._-...._..- 22

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EXOGYRA CLARKI SP. NOV.
PLATE XII.

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PLATE XII.

Page. 

Ptychomya ragsdalei (Cragin)........................................... 24

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PLATE XIII.

Page. 

Fig. 1. Ptychomya ragsdalei (Cragin)-_____________.__---._.--_-._--_.._. 24

Figs. 2-4. Cardium (Granocardium) budaense sp. nov _-___._-.-...-..__.- 25 

Figs. 5-7. Cardium (Protocardia) texanum Conrad ....................... 25

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PTYCHOMYA, CARDIUM.
PLATE XIV.

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PLATE XIV.

Figs. 1-3. Cardinm (Protocardia) vaughani sp'. nov. 

Figs. 4, 5. Isocardia medialis (Conrad).............

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CARDIUM, ISOCARDIA.
PLATE XY.

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PLATE XV.

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Figs. 1,2. Isocardia medialis (Conrad) .......................... ........ 27

Figs. 3-6. Pholadomya roemeri sp. nov..--.-------.-.-..--.----.---.-.-.- 28
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ISOCARDIA, PHOLADOMYA.
PLATE XVI.
PLATE XVI.

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Figs. 1-3. Homomya austinensis sp. nov. -.---....-..-..-.....-.-..-..-... 28 

Figs. 4,5. Homomya vulgaris sp. nov .......................... ......... 29

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HOMOMYA.
PLATE XYII.

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PLATE XVII.

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Homomya viilgaris sp. nov. ---.----..--..--........ ...._--....._.....---. 29

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HOMOMYA VULGARIS SP. NOV.
PLATE XVIII.

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PLATE XVIII.

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Figs. 1, 2. Anatina anstinensis ap. nov.-.--.--.............---.......-...'.- 29

Fig. 3. Anatina texana sp. nov.......--.-..---..----.-.-..---...:..----.. 30

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PLATE XIX.

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PLATE XIX.

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Fig. 1. Patella sp--.-.................................................... 30

Figs. 2, 3. Trochussp...........................-.'............ ............ 31

Figs. 4-6. Turritella budaensis sp. nov .................................... 31

Figs. 7, 8. Cerithiujn (?) texanum sp. nov ................................ 32

Fig. 9. Fusus texanus sp. nov.._.......... --.-...---.----.-............... 33

Figs. 10, 11. Fusus sp._ ........................... ;......_............. 34
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PATELLA, TROCHUS, TURRITELLA, CERITHIUM, FUSUS.
PLATE XX.

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PLATE XX.

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Pleurotomaria st ntoni sp. nov.....-......--._----.-..-..-.-....-.-..---... 30

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PLATE XXI.

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Harpagodes shumardi (Hill) ...-......-.-.--.-..-.--..--....--.--_----.-- 32

Reduced.

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HARPAGODES SHUMARDI (HILL).
PLATE XXII.

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Cypraea sp.-.-.----'-.----...-....--.---.-.-...-..-.-.-...-.-.------.-..--- 83

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CYPRXEA SP.
PLATE XXIII.

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PLATE XXIII.

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Figs. 1, 2. Nautilus texanus Shumard _.._..__.:._.....____.___ __...-_.__._ 34 

Fig. 3. Nautilus hilli sp. nov.......................................... .. 35
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NAUTILUS.
PLATE XXIY.

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PLATE XXIV.

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Figs. 1, 2. Nautilus texanus Shumard.....,.......-...-.--....---........ '34

Figs. 3, 4. Nautilus hilli sp. nov.......................................... 35

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NAUTILUS.
PLATE XXV.

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Fig. 1. Barroisiceras texanum sp. nov..-.............--.-...----....--.-. 35

Figs. 2, 3. Barroisiceras hyatti sp. nov ..-..............-----.._----..-... 35
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BARROISICERAS.
PLATE XXVI.

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PLATE XXVI.

CORALS OF THE BUDA LIMESTONE.

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FIG. 1. Orbicella (?) texana Vaughan. General view of a specimen; height,

as placed in figure, 126 mm ---...----...._.._._-..-...--_..°-_... 38 

FIGS. 2,3. Coral sp. Two views of the same specimen; height of specimen,

49.5mm............-.--.'. .-...--..........-.--.--... ....._ _._ 38

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PLATE XXVII.

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PLATE XXVII.

CORALS OF THE BUDA LIMESTONE.

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FIGS. 1-3. Parasmilia texana Vaughan._..____.___..___._._..__.___.._.____. 37

Figs. 1, 2, two upright views of the corallum: height, 15.5 mm. Fig.

3, calicular view; greater diameter, 14 mm. 

FIGS. 4,5. Trochosmilia (?) sp. indet. Height of specimen, 17 mm......... 38

FIG. 6. Orbicella (?) texana Vaughan. Cross-section of a corallite enlarged

ten times; diameter, 3 mm .............................^........... ' 38

Fios.7,8. Leptophyllia sp. (No. 2) ....................................... 39

Fig. 7, calicular view; lesser transverse diameter of calice, 13.5 mm. Fig.

8, view of corallum from side; height, 11 mm. 

FIGS.9-11. Leptophyllia sp. (No. 1) ...................................... .. 39

Fig. 9, view from side; height. 14 mm. Fig. 10, portion of broken upper 

surface, showing very perforate and disconnected character of the 

septa, enlarged four times. Fig. 11, a few septa; shows synapticula, 

enlarged seven and one-third times.

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CORALS OF THE BUDA LIMESTONE.
INDEX.

[Names in italic are synonyms; figures in black-face type aro numbers of pago on which dottiiled 

descriptions appear; figures in italic denote illustrations.]

rtige. 

Aloctryonia Fischer....................... 21

sp.. .: . .................... 21

Arnmonoidea ............................. 35-36

Anatina Lamarck........................ 29-30

aiistinensis sp. nov ................ 29, 30, 7k

texana sp. nov ...................... 29,30, 7/>

Anatinidse ................................ 29-30

Anthozoa .. .............................. 37-40

Arcidte..................................... 23

Astroccenia guadalupae Roomer -.....---. 39

Austin, map of region near ............... 12

section at ......,......^................ 13

Barroisiceras (?) Grossouvre............. 35-36

hyatti sp. nov......................... 36, SS

texanum sp. nov .................. 35-36, 8S

Bibliography .....:........................ 11-12

Buda limestone, geology of ............... 12-14

historical review of ................... 9-11

section of Del Rio clays, Fort Worth

limestone, and................. 13

species in .............................. 14

CardiidiB.................................. 25-26

Cardium Linnaeus........................ 25-26

. Cardium (Granocardium) budaense sp.

nov ---.---...--.----..----..... 25, (lit

mediate Conrad........................ 27

sancti-sabse Roemer................... 28

(Granocardium) budaense sp. nov... 25,64

(Protocardia) texanum Conrail.. 25-26, 6k

vaughanisp. nov ................. 26, 66

Cephalopoda.............................. 34-36

CerithiidtB................................. 32

Cerithium Adanson....................... 32

(?) texanum sp. nov ................... 32,7G

Clark, W. B., acknowledgments to....... 9

cited on fossils of Buda limestone .... 10

Comanche series, divisions of............. 12

Coral sp................................... 38,90

Cragin, F. W., cited on fossils of Birda

limestone...................... 10

Crassatellidse ......................^........ 24fl

Cucullsea Lamarck........................ 23

terminalis Conrad..................... 23

sp ...................................... 23

Cypraea Linnaeus.......................... 33

sp...................................... 33,SS

Cypraeidae ......... ........ ......... 33

Cyprinidae ..................-.. ... ....... 27

Dalliconcha invaginata White ............ 19

Del Rio clays, section of Buda limestone,

Port Worth limestone, and ... 13

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Exogyra Say. .............................. 22

arietina..........:............-..... .. 10

clarkisp. nov ...................... 22,5S,CO

costata Say--....---.---.-----------.-- 22

ponderosa .............................. 22

sinuata var. amcricana Marcou ...... 22

Fort Worth limestone, section of Del Rio

clay, Buda limestone, and .... 13

Fusidas..................................... 33-34

FususLamarck........................... 33-34

texanussp. nov....................... 33, 76

sp--..............---.- ..... ........... 34, 70

Gasteropoda.............................. 30-34

Gervilliopsis Whitfield.................... 19

invaginata (?) (White) ............. 19, IS

Granocardium Gabb...................... 25

Gr yphaea Lamarck....................... 21-22

mucronata Gabb.................. 21-22, 5C

navia Hall............................. 21

pitcher i Roemer ....... ........^....... 21

var. navia Hall.................... 21

Harpagodes Gill.......................... 32-33

shurnarcii (Hill)..............--... 32-33, ,90

Hill, R. T., acknowledgments to ......... 9

cited on Buda limestone ............ 9,10,12

quoted on Buda limestone ............ 12

Hill, R. T., and Vaughan, T. W., cited on

gryphaeas of the Texas region. 11 

quoted on Gryphaea mucronata ...... 22

Hornomya Agassiz ....................... 28-29

austinensis sp.nov................. 28, 29,70

vulgarissp. nov................. 28,29, 70,72

Hyatt, A., reference to.................... 9

Inoceramus Sowerby ..................... 19

sp ...................................... 19

Isocardia Lamarck..........:............. 27

medialis (Conrad)................. 27,6Y;,CS

Janira quadricostata Sowerby........... 16

quinquecostata Sowerby.............. 16

Leptophyllia sp ....................... 39-40, 02

Lima Bruguiere.......................... 17-18

leonensis Conrad ...................... .18

shumardisp. nov.................. 17-18,AS

wacoensisRoemer..................... IS, 1,8

sp~--- -- ---- -: ----. 18,/,8

Limidae .....'... ...-.. . .,....... 17-18

Modiola Lamarck......................... 23

(?)sp..............- ............... 23, au

Mytilidaj................................... 23

Nautilidae...........-.....'................ 34-35

Nautilus Linnaeus ........................ 34-35

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Paga 

Nautilushillisp.nov.................. 35, 8U,86

texanus Shumard ...---._.... 34, 35,54,86

Neithea texana Roemer................... 17

Orbicella (?) texana Vaughan ..... 38-39, 00,92

Ostrea Linnaeus ........................... 20

pitcheri Roemer....................... 21

sp ...................................... 20

OstreidiB.................................. 20-22

Pachymya Sowerby...................... 26-27

austinensis (?) Shumard.............. 26-27

Packyniyidee ............................. 26-27

Parasmilia austinensis Roemer. ........... 37

texana Vaughan ...................37-38, 1)2

Patella Linnteus........................... 80

sp...................................... 30, 76

Patellidro .....'............... ........... 30

Pecten Mttller .-....-...'.................. 15-17

cequicostatus Roemer.................. 17

duplicicosta (?) Roemer........... 10-17, k8

cjuadricostatiis Sowerby -.-.---.-.-... 16 

quinquecostatus (?) (Sowerby) ...... 16, !,S

roenieri (Hill) ............... 15, ig,kh,k(J, kS

texanus Roemer...................... 17, ItS

Pectinidpe.................................. 15-17

Pelecypoda ............................... 15-30

PernidaJ.-..-.------------------.----------. 19

Pholadomya Sowerby..................... 28

raysdalei Cragin....................... 24

roemeri sp.aiov ...................._ 28, 68

Pholadomyidae........................:... 28-29

Pinna Linnaeus ........................... 19-20

sp.- -- ... 19-20, 50,53

Pinnidse................................... 19-20

Pletirotomaria de France ................ 30-31

austinensis Shumard.................. 31

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Pleurotornaria staiitoni sp. nov ...... 30-31, 78

PleurotomariidiB ......................... 30-31

Protocardia Beyrich .....................' 25-26

Pterocera shumardi Hill.................. 32

Ptychomya Agassiz....................... 24

ragsdalei (Cragin)................. 24, 68,6k

Spondylidae................................ 20

Spondylus Linnaeus............._....... 20

sp...................................... 20, 5k

Stanton, T. "W., acknowledgments to .... 9

cited on Lower Cretaceous formations .......:................... 10

letter of transinittal by............... 7

Stephanocoania.....'....................... 39

Strombidse................................ 32-33

Trigonia Bruguiere ...................... 23-24

emoryi Conrad......i............. 23-24, 5k

Trigoniidaa................................ 23-24

Trochidae .................................. 31

Trochosmilia (?) sp. iudet................ 38, 93

TrochusLinnaeus ......1.................. 31

sp....-......-..-.......--....-......,... 31, 76

Turritella Lamarck....................... 31-32

. budaensissp.nov.................. 31-32,76

marnochi "White....................... 32

planilateris Conrad.................... 32

seriatim-granulata Roemer........... 32

Turritellidee.............................. 31-32

Vaughan, T. "W., reference to.............. 9

Vaughan, T. "W., and Hill, R. T., cited on

gryphseas of the Texas region. 11 

quoted on Gryphaea mucronata ...... 22

Vola quinquecostata Sowerby..1......... 10,15

Walcott, C. D., acknowledgments to ..... 9

Washita division, formations of.......... 12

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