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III.—On Jurassic Ammonites

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

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In a former communication (Geol. Mag. Dec. III. Vol. IV. No. 9, p. 396, 1887), when pointing out how Reinecke's Amm. serpentinus had been misunderstood, I gave as a synonym, but with a query, Sowerby's Amm. Strangewaysi. As I have, since then, examined the type-specimen of the latter species contained in the collection of the Natural History Museum, and as Mr. E. Walford kindly forwarded me for my determination a capital specimen from Byfield, I have been able to satisfactorily settle the identity of these forms. Except being evolute carinate Ammonites, the two species have hardly a feature in common.

Discoidal, compressed, hollow-carinate. Whorls flattened, ornamented with genuine sickle-shaped ribs, which, though less conspicuous in size on the body-chamber, are there more distinctly bent. Ventral area marked by the prolonged forward sweep of the ribs, and surmounted by a well-marked hollow-carina.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1889

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page 202 note 1 Hitherto unknown (Haug). It agrees almost exactly with my fig. 28, pl. A. (Monogr, . Ammonites, 1889, part iii.Google Scholar), but the inferior lateral lobe is a little larger and is nearer the edge.

page 202 note 2 I take the opportunity of thanking the officers of the Natural History and Jermyn Street Museums for their kindness and courtesy.