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I >i -\ (Miian character is certain. The occurrence of the Monograptus- 

 specimens, <>f framnents of an Ettcrinnrns and of Tliccia swinderenana 

 |,,int in that direction. On the other hand a form like our Stenochisma 

 ''yr//x/.v nfi-ficti. shows an extremely near relation to 5. -modest us 

 I I.M.I, which in .\e\\ York and New Jersey ha- it- chief development in 

 the New Scotland and I>ecrafl inemhers of the Lower Helderherg group. 

 of other forms -ho\ving more Devonian than Silurian aspects may be 

 mentioned forms like our lVo/7/f.s- and 1'latyceras, though somewhat 

 ^imilar forms are found also in the Silurian. Two other Arctic -pecie- 

 that prohahly can he regarded as Devonian types are the Stro- 

 l>lt, -in/unfit iHilrrxoiii (tntiqini and Gypididu coeymatiensis prognostica 



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The chief stratigraphical result of this study is then that a high 

 Arctic representative of a fauna known from the middle part of eastern 

 North America is found, thus allowing us also to draw the region of 

 the -ea for the period of this horizon over South-western Ellesmereland, 

 ,-iinl in the character of the fauna or the rocks there is no evidence for 

 a inning that shores were present very near, or that it was not fully 

 open and -all sea. 



After the deposition of this series these conditions seem to change. 

 \Ye -.1 coarser and more exclusively terrigenous deposits, indicating the 

 pre-ence of land not very far distant. We may emote SCHEI for the 

 description of these higher heds: "Series B is overlain, both in Goose- 

 fjord and \Yalrnsljord, by Series C, the bottom strata of which consist 

 of alternate laver- of light and dark marly shales, partly arenaceous. 

 whil-l its upper strata reveal beds of pure miarlz sandstone and argilla- 

 ceous -ami-Ion''-. The total thickness of these -trala amounts to about 

 I oil!) feel in (ioo-efjord. but is possibly thicker at Hell gate. Series C 

 cropped out al>o at the foot of the lol'tv plateau walls at the inner 



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sithmus (Indre Eide) and at Horgen (The Ca>lle). In both these localities 

 it i- overlain by a dark lime-tone and black -hales, in part abundantly 

 -npplied with fos-ils. This formation - dark limestone and black shale- 

 - is the lowe.-l in a >ncce--ion of strata (series |)|. which attain a thick- 

 lit--- of Kino feel, and crop on) in \erlical section on both sides of 

 ( ;...,-, fjord, from llorgen to the foot of \Yolf peak (Yar-lopp), and trom 

 the inner i-tlimn- to Stony Valley (Skrabdall etc.". 



According to the studio before mentioned of OSCAK Kmcii MKYKH 

 \\r lind wilhin this Serie- |) representatives of different Devonian 

 fauna-, all related to X.-w ^'orker faunas and ranging from the Lower 

 iprobablv from the middle portion) to (ihemung. According 



