squamose

“-- (Fig. 200.) In the P. Madisonius, the ribs number about fifteen, and they are ornamented with three squamose ridges each.”

Report of the North-Carolina Geological Survey. Agriculture of the Eastern Counties: Together with Descriptions of the Fossils of the Marl Beds

“Shell very large, ribs, ten, and wide, and longitudinally marked by fine ridges, which are not squamose.”

Report of the North-Carolina Geological Survey. Agriculture of the Eastern Counties: Together with Descriptions of the Fossils of the Marl Beds

“Shell comparatively thin, and light and compressed valves; circular, sometimes oblique and equilateral; ribs twenty-four, marked on the outside with concentric squamose lines of growth, which are undulating, the last of which are strong; lower valve less convex than the upper.”

Report of the North-Carolina Geological Survey. Agriculture of the Eastern Counties: Together with Descriptions of the Fossils of the Marl Beds

“A. [EXOGYRA COSTATA] Shell sub-oval, very thick, lower valve convex, and covered with strong corrugated ribs; apex lateral, with about two volutions; upper valve flat, thick, supplied with numerous elevated concentric squamose plates.”

Report of the North-Carolina Geological Survey. Agriculture of the Eastern Counties: Together with Descriptions of the Fossils of the Marl Beds

“[CHAMA CORTICOSA] Shell thick, squamose, or concentrically laminated and imbricate; lamina striated, sinistral, crenulated interiorly; upper valve flat.”

Report of the North-Carolina Geological Survey. Agriculture of the Eastern Counties: Together with Descriptions of the Fossils of the Marl Beds

“-- (Fig. 209.) Shell thick, or orbicular-cordate squamose; the radiating ribs spinose, strong, tubular or folded; intervening space coarsely punctate and rugose.”

Report of the North-Carolina Geological Survey. Agriculture of the Eastern Counties: Together with Descriptions of the Fossils of the Marl Beds

“Weeks were once given over to a small misunderstanding over the Louisiana Purchase versus the Louisiana perches, Flim, Flam and Flo, "a stellar set of squamose songsters.”

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“I may mention, that the dorsal surface of this ancient fish had also its central plate, -- a lozenge truncated at its two longer ends; and that, moulded to meet the necessities of its position, it was not flat, like the under one, but strongly arched; and that on four of its six sides it overrode by a squamose suture the lower plates with which it came in contact.”

The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed

“One or two half-grown specimens occur in the series entirely devoid of tubercles, while a small shell before me, undoubtedly of this species, is squamose adjoining the suture, has two rows of tubercles above, a large row below, and is covered with strong revolving lines.”

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