Identifier: smithsonianmisce671924smit (find matches)
Title: Smithsonian miscellaneous collections Note: actually not a book but a periodical/monograph series comprising many volumes.
Year: 1862 (1860s) Note: actually the release date of the 1st volume of this periodical. The release year of the volume which contained the figure described here (i.e. vol.  67) is 1924.
Authors: Smithsonian Institution Note: the S.I. is not the author but the publisher of the periodical. The actual author of volume 67 is Charles D. Walcott.
Subjects: Science
Publisher: Washington : Smithsonian Institution
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DESCRIPTION OF PLATE 126

Ozomia lucan Walcott (Page 531)

Fig. 1. (×3.) Natural cast of the interior of one side of the carapace of a large specimen. U.S. Nat. Mus., Cat. No. 69799.

2. (×3.) Natural cast of a smaller carapace. U.S. Nat. Mus., Cat. No. 69800.

3, 3a. (×3.) Side and anterior view of a cast preserving the impression of both sides of the carapace. U.S. Nat. Mus., Cat. No. 69801.

The specimens represented by figs. 1-3, and 3a, are from locality 66n, Ozarkian: Mons formation, Fossil Mountain, Alberta, Can.

Endoceras (?) monsensis Walcott (Page 529)

Fig. 4. (×4.) View of the deeper side of the conch in which the annulations and the lines of the cameræ are clearly defined. U.S. Nat. Mus., Cat. No. 69802.

4a. (×4.) Dorsal or ventral view of fig. 4 specimen.

4b. (×4.) Section of fig. 4 specimen, showing the oval dorsoventral section.

The specimens represented by figs. 4, 4a, 4b, are from locality 64p, Ozarkian: Mons formation, Glacier Lake Canyon Valley, Alberta, Can.

Ellesmeroceras robsonensis Walcott (Page 527)

Figs. 5 and 6. (×4.) Two views of a fragment of a conch preserving a portion of the living chamber and a number of the sutures separating the septa. U.S. Nat. Mus., Cat. No. 69803.

7, 7 a. (×4.) A fragment of a conch preserving a portion of the living chamber, a few septa, and at the end one of the camera with a section of the siphuncle. U.S. Nat. Mus., Cat. No. 69804.

8. (×4.) Ventral side of a broken conch preserving the living chamber, septa and sutures; the siphuncle shows fairly well. U.S. Nat. Mus., Cat. No. 69805.

9, 9a. (×4.) A finely dissected specimen of the septate middle section of a conch showing the septa of the siphuncle with slightly elevated margin on the sutures, the cameræ, and sutures. Fig. 9a illustrates the position of the siphuncle. U.S. Nat. Mus., Cat. No. 69806.

The specimens represented by figs. 5-9a are from locality 61q, Ozarkian: Chushina formation, Billings Butte, Mount Robson District, B.C., Can.

Note: The full reference of the corresponding work reads as follows:

• Charles D. Walcott (1924): Cambrian and Ozarkian Brachiopoda, Ozarkian Cephalopoda and Notostraca. Pp. 477–555 in: Cambrian Geology and Paleontology IV. Smithsonian miscellaneous collections 67.

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