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III.—A Revision of the Group of Nautilus elegans, J. Sowerby

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

Arthur H. Foord
Arthur H. Foord
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Assistant in the Geological Department, British Museum (Nat. Hist)
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Owing to the defective character of Sowerby's description and figure of Nautilus elegans, the latter has been variously interpreted, specimens belonging to other species having been frequently referred to it. In the present paper we shall show what is the true N. elegans, tracing the history of the type-specimen, which we have been fortunate enough to identify in the collection of the British Museum. This done, we shall proceed to describe three other species, viz. N. elegantoides, d'Orbigny, N. Atlas, Whiteaves, and N. pseudoelegans, d'Orbigny, all evidently allied to N. elegans, and forming with it a group of species which may be appropriately called the “Group of Nautilus elegans.”

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Geological Magazine , Volume 7 , Issue 12 , December 1890 , pp. 542 - 552
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1890

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page 543 note 3 This has been a stumbling-block to many. F. B. Meek (United States Geol. Surv. Terr. vol. ix. 1876, p. 500, footnote) says:—“his [Sowerby's] single figure being an oblique view does not show the form of the aperture.”

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page 543 note 5 Ibid. p. 13, pl. iv. figs, 2a, 2b.

page 543 note 6 D'Orbigny's N. elegans will now be known as Nautilus Atlas, a name proposed for it by J. F. Whiteaves (see post, p. 550).

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page 546 note 2 Ibid. pp. 123–128.

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page 551 note 1 A cast of this specimen is now in the British Museum.

page 552 note 1 Two specimens were sent, both numbered 4834 D; the larger one is represented in Fig. 3.