Note on the genus Archeocyathus of Billings

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Abstract
In a copy of the pamphlet now before me the genus is described on page 3, and the characters are largely drawn from A. Atlanticus, the first species following the generic description on page 4. rr'he second species is A. Minganensis, a form referred to the genus, not used as its t.ype, and it was not illus.trated.In 1865 Mr. Billings proposed the species Archeocyathus p1'ofundus (Pal.Foss., vol.i, p. 4), and placed it after the description of the genus, without mentioning that the genus was founded on A. Atlanticus, and, on p. 355, he gives A. profundus as the type, then A. Minganensis,' and refers to A. AtlanMcus as the third species of the genus.This has led the paleontologists, who have not seen the pamphlet of 1861, to consider A.. profundus as the type of the genus Archeocyathus.I found that A. Atlanticus belonged to one genus and A. profundus to a different and distinct genus; and as Mr. F.
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Authors Charles D. Walcott
Journal american journal of science
Year 1887
DOI
10.2475/ajs.s3-34.200.145
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https://doi.org/10.2475/ajs.s3-34.200.145
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