Keywords: The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London (13369196113).jpg 1873 <br> DUNCAN CARYOPHYLLIA BREDAI <br> 503 <br> Oxus there must have been a time before Central Asia was highly <br> civilized when the river ran freely through the country unconfined <br> by artificial means ; and he thought it possible that at that time its <br> lower part afforded an outlet from the sea of Aral to the Caspian <br> With a greater rainfall he thought the water of the sea of Aral <br> would find its way along the old course of the Oxus into the Cas- <br> pian Sea <br> 2 On Caryophyllia Bredai Milne-Edwards Jules Haime from <br> the Red Crag of Woodbridge By P Martin Duncan M B <br> F R S V P G S c <br> A specimen of a simple coral has recently been discovered by E <br> Charlesworth Esq F G S in the Red Crag of the Woodbridge <br> district of Suffolk The form is interesting from its mineral consti- <br> tution as well as from its adding another species to the coral-fauna <br> of the Crag <br> MM Milne-Edwards and Jules Haime described one of the <br> Caryophyllia of the Maestricht Upper Chalk in their ' Histoire Na- <br> turelle des Coralliaires ' vol ii page 18 as follows ” The corallum <br> is elongate and much curved ; the wall is almost smooth and is <br> marked with some horizontal ridges ; the columella is slightly deve- <br> loped and sometimes is reduced to a solitary process There are <br> Fig 1 ” Caryophyllia Bredai Milne-Edw Haime <br> 1 2 3 <br> 1 Side view of the corallum natural size <br> 2 The calice enlarged <br> 3 A side view of a septum enlarged showing the granulations <br> four complete cycles of septa in six systems The septa of the last <br> cycle are very small ; the primaries are thick at their inner end are <br> larger than the secondaries ; and the tertiarics are thin All are <br> covered with large and projecting granulations The pali are <br> situated before the secondary septa and are narrow as well as <br> flexuous <br> The newly discovered form appears to be a variety of this Upper <br> Cretaceous species It differs from the type in being curved at the <br> base and then subturbinatc Moreover the pali are irregularly <br> placed although the septal number is complete ; they are in one 39051441 120601 51125 Page 503 Text v 29 http //www biodiversitylibrary org/page/39051441 1873 Geological Society of London NameFound Caryophyllia NameConfirmed Caryophyllia EOLID 11129596 NameBankID 2566615 NameFound Caryophyllia bredai NameConfirmed Caryophyllia bredai Biodiversity Heritage Library The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London v 29 1873 Geology Periodicals Smithsonian Libraries bhl page 39051441 dc identifier http //biodiversitylibrary org/page/39051441 smithsonian libraries Information field Flickr posted date ISOdate 2014-03-24 Check categories 2015 August 26 CC-BY-2 0 BioDivLibrary https //flickr com/photos/61021753 N02/13369196113 2015-08-26 10 51 47 cc-by-2 0 PD-old-70-1923 The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London 1873 Photos uploaded from Flickr by Fæ using a script |