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Morton, S. G. (1834). Synopsis of the organic remains of the Cretaceous Group of the United States. Philadelphia: Key & Biddle. 88 pp., 19 pls., + Appendix, 8 pp. [The Appendix is titled: Catalogue of the fossil shells of the Tertiary Formations of the United States, embracing all the species hitherto published.].
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Morton, S. G.
1834
Synopsis of the organic remains of the Cretaceous Group of the United States.
Philadelphia: Key & Biddle. 88 pp., 19 pls., + Appendix, 8 pp. [The Appendix is titled: Catalogue of the fossil shells of the Tertiary Formations of the United States, embracing all the species hitherto published.]
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[Preface starts:]
In Mr. Maclure's "Geology of the United States," the formation we are about to examine is called alluvial, without any specific reference to the contained fossils, which at the time that work was published, were almost unknown: several of them were subsequently described by Mr. Say, who, however, took little notice of their geological relations.
Dr. Harlan has written several papers on the Marl of New Jersey, with particular reference to fossil osteology; and Dr. Dekay has more recently pursued the same interesting investigation.
Mr. Vanuxem's memoir on the Secondary, Tertiary and Alluvial formations of the United States, embraces brief, but important views of the arenaceous deposit of this Synopsis, which he was the first to identify with the Chalk series of Europe, although he does not refer it to any particular division of the Chalk.
With these and other aids, all of which will be more specifically acknowledged hereafter, I applied myself to the study of what has been termed the "Marl region" of this country; and my object was greatly promoted by the extensive excavations at the Chesapeake and Delaware canal. I have also had access to nearly all the public and private collections of which marl fossils form a part; and in this respect owe much to the kindness of my friends Dr. Blanding, Mr. J. P. Wetherill, Mr. Nuttall, Prof. Hitchcock, Mr. Cooper, Dr. Dekay, Dr. Z. Pitcher and Mr. T. A. Conrad. The last named gentleman, although he has not written on this portion of American geology, has contributed as much as any one to its elucidation; and to him also belongs the honour of first identifying and making known the Calcaire grossier, or Eocene, of Alabama.
In Mr. Maclure's "Geology of the United States," the formation we are about to examine is called alluvial, without any specific reference to the contained fossils, which at the time that work was published, were almost unknown: several of them were subsequently described by Mr. Say, who, however, took little notice of their geological relations.
Dr. Harlan has written several papers on the Marl of New Jersey, with particular reference to fossil osteology; and Dr. Dekay has more recently pursued the same interesting investigation.
Mr. Vanuxem's memoir on the Secondary, Tertiary and Alluvial formations of the United States, embraces brief, but important views of the arenaceous deposit of this Synopsis, which he was the first to identify with the Chalk series of Europe, although he does not refer it to any particular division of the Chalk.
With these and other aids, all of which will be more specifically acknowledged hereafter, I applied myself to the study of what has been termed the "Marl region" of this country; and my object was greatly promoted by the extensive excavations at the Chesapeake and Delaware canal. I have also had access to nearly all the public and private collections of which marl fossils form a part; and in this respect owe much to the kindness of my friends Dr. Blanding, Mr. J. P. Wetherill, Mr. Nuttall, Prof. Hitchcock, Mr. Cooper, Dr. Dekay, Dr. Z. Pitcher and Mr. T. A. Conrad. The last named gentleman, although he has not written on this portion of American geology, has contributed as much as any one to its elucidation; and to him also belongs the honour of first identifying and making known the Calcaire grossier, or Eocene, of Alabama.
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Janira mortoni A. d'Orbigny, 1850 † accepted as Neithea quinquecostata (J. Sowerby, 1814) † (additional source)
Nautilus dekayi S. G. Morton, 1834 † accepted as Eutrephoceras dekayi (S. G. Morton, 1834) † (original description)
Pecten poulsoni S. G. Morton, 1834 † (original description)
Plagiostoma dumosum S. G. Morton, 1834 † accepted as Spondylus dumosus (S. G. Morton, 1834) † (original description)
Pleurotoma biseriata S. G. Morton, 1834 † (original description)
Rostellaria pennata S. G. Morton, 1834 † accepted as Anchura pennata (S. G. Morton, 1834) † (original description)
Trigonia thoracica S. G. Morton, 1834 † accepted as Tennessiella thoracica (S. G. Morton, 1834) † (original description)
Trochus leprosa Morton, 1834 † accepted as Xenophora leprosa (Morton, 1834) † (original description)
Turritella encrinoides S. G. Morton, 1834 † (original description)
Turritella vertebroides S. G. Morton, 1834 † (original description)
Nautilus dekayi S. G. Morton, 1834 † accepted as Eutrephoceras dekayi (S. G. Morton, 1834) † (original description)
Pecten poulsoni S. G. Morton, 1834 † (original description)
Plagiostoma dumosum S. G. Morton, 1834 † accepted as Spondylus dumosus (S. G. Morton, 1834) † (original description)
Pleurotoma biseriata S. G. Morton, 1834 † (original description)
Rostellaria pennata S. G. Morton, 1834 † accepted as Anchura pennata (S. G. Morton, 1834) † (original description)
Trigonia thoracica S. G. Morton, 1834 † accepted as Tennessiella thoracica (S. G. Morton, 1834) † (original description)
Trochus leprosa Morton, 1834 † accepted as Xenophora leprosa (Morton, 1834) † (original description)
Turritella encrinoides S. G. Morton, 1834 † (original description)
Turritella vertebroides S. G. Morton, 1834 † (original description)
Alabama for Pecten poulsoni S. G. Morton, 1834 †
Alabama for Plagiostoma dumosum S. G. Morton, 1834 †
Alabama for Plagiostoma dumosum S. G. Morton, 1834 †
