The genus nerita, and many others, are also represented by individuals of a type now characteristic of equatorial seas, and wholly unlike any Mediterranean forms.
"The Student's Elements of Geology"
Sir Charles Lyell
The Nummulites planulata is very abundant, and the most characteristic shell is the nerita conoidea, Lam.
"The Student's Elements of Geology"
Sir Charles Lyell
23. nerita 116 On the shores of all warm seas.
"Sea-Weeds, Shells and Fossils"
Peter Gray B. B. Woodward