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Besides the fourteen species enumerated from these two lower beds, M. d'Orbigny has described ten other species given to him from this locality; namely: Fusus Cleryanus, d'Orbigny "Voyage" Pal. 2. Fusus petitianus, d'Orbigny "Voyage" Pal. 3. Venus hanetiana, d'Orbigny "Voyage" Pal. 4. Venus Cleryana, d'Orbigny "Voyage" Pal. 6. Venus petitiana, d'Orbigny "Voyage" Pal. 7.
I collected the following extinct shells, of which the Turritella was in great numbers: Bulla cosmophila, G.B. Sowerby. 2. Pleurotoma subaequalis, G.B. Sowerby. 3. Fusus cleryanus, d'Orbigny, "Voyage Pal." Triton leucostomoides, G.B. Sowerby. 5. Venus, probably a distinct species, but very imperfect. 7. Dentalium majus, G.B. Sowerby. This fine island is about one hundred miles in length.
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