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I.—On a New Genus of Fossil “Calamary,” from the Cretaceous Formation of Sahel Alma, near Beirût, Lebanon, Syria

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

Henry Woodward
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Some years ago my friend Mr. Robert Damon, F.G.S., of Wey-mouth, visited the Cretaceous deposits of the Lebanon, and when at that place he was so fortunate as to make the acquaintance of the Rev. E. R. Lewis, M.A., F.G.S., Professor in the Syrian Protestant College, Beirût, Syria.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 10 , Issue 1 , January 1883 , pp. 1 - 5
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1883

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page 2 note 1 See article on “The Fossil Fish Localities of the Lebanon,” by the Rev. ProfLewis, E. R., M.A., F.G.S., Geol. Mag. 1878, Decade II. Vol. V. pp. 214–220.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

page 2 note 2 Belemnoteulhis, Pearce, 1842, see Proc. Geol. Soc. 2, p. 593Google Scholar, and on the fossil Cephalopoda constituting the genus Belemnoteulhis, by Pearce, J. C., F.G.S., London Geological Journal, No. 2, 02. 1847, pl. xvi.Google Scholar

page 2 note 3 See Mem. Geol. Sury. Mon. ii. 1864, pp. 1–14, plate i.Google Scholar

page 3 note 1 Münster's Beiträge zur Petrefactenkunde, 7th Heft, 1846, Bayreuth, t. vi. fig. 7.Google Scholar

page 3 note 2 The base or proximal end of the shell is, in breadth, exactly ⅛th the entire length.

page 3 note 3 See Münster's Beiträge zur Petrefactenkunde, Erstes und Siebentes Heft, 1846.Google Scholar

page 3 note 4 “Die fossilen Ueberreste von nachten Dintenfischen,” 1860.Google Scholar

page 3 note 5 See Münster's Beitrage, 7th part, Taf. 4, 5, and 6.

page 4 note 1 See Professor Huxley's (Memoirs Geol. Surv. 1864), Monograph II. “On the Structure of Belemnitidæ, p. 21.Google Scholar

page 4 note 2 This may hare belonged to the genus Belemnoteuthis?

page 4 note 3 Paleontographica, Band xv. pt. 6, p. 272.Google Scholar

page 4 note 4 The extremcly chalky and friahle nature of the Sahel–Alma deposit renders the preservation of minute structures such as these a task of extreme difficulty.

page 4 note 5 From δópv, δóparos a spear or lance; and тενθìς, a squid or cuttle.