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Coal Measures and Coal Mining in Iowa, including paleontology and a discussion on the coal formation; also the methods of mining by Russell T. Hartman, 1898

Coal Measures and Coal Mining in Iowa by Russell T. Hartman, 1898, Page 119

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[page]118.[/page] [underlined][underlined][underlined]MYTILACEA.[/underlined][/underlined][/underlined] (HETEROMYARIA). Pallial line entire, except in one Tertiary genus. Two adductor muscles, except in a recent genus in which there is but one; anterior adductor small, posterior larger. Ligament usually contained in several marginal grooves or in an oblique furrow. The hinge may be or may not be provided with teeth. [underlined][underlined]Aviculidae[/underlined][/underlined] [underlined]Myalina swallori[/underlined], McChesney. Plate IX. figure 2. McChesney, 1860, Descriptions New Palaezoic Fossils, page 57. Ancilla hansmanni, Geinitz, 1866, Carb. and Dyas, in Nebraska, page 25. Shell attaining a length of an inch and a half, a height of three-fourths of an inch and a thickness of three-eights of an inch, oblique, approaching equivalve, umbonal
 
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