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III.—On the Identity of Heterophyllia Lyelli and H. mirabilis of Duncan

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

John Young
John Young
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Curator of the Hunterian Museum, Glasgow.
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In a paper published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Dr. Duncan has figured and described six new species of Carboniferous corals, belonging to the genus Hetero-phyllia of M'Coy, from specimens found in Scottish Carboniferous limestone strata. Of these species two H. Lyelli and H. mirabilis, seem to be founded on portions, which the careful examination of better preserved specimens would have shown to belong to only one good species.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 5 , Issue 52 , October 1868 , pp. 448 - 451
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1868

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page 448 note 1 On the Genera' Heterophyllia, Battersbyia, Palæocyclua, and Asteroimilia; the Anatomy of their Species, and their position in the Classification of the Selerodermic Zoantharia. By Duncan, P. Martin, M.B. Lond., F.G.S., Secretary to the Geological Society.—Read 05 2, 1867.Google Scholar

page 451 note 1 In the Catalogue of the collection of fossils in the Museum of Practical Geology, page 129, Serpula hexagona is mentioned from the Glasgow district. Unfortunately as the authorities for the species are not given in that work, I am unable to state whether that species be the same as M‘Coy’s S. hexicarinata. But I suspect that it is, and if so, then it must be referred to the genus of corals in question, for I know of no hexagonal form of Serpula from the Carboniferous strata of Scotland, especially from the Glasgow district, with the fossils of which I am well acquainted.